David Miliband Quotes

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• My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.

  David Miliband

  Winning, Simple, Roots

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.

  David Miliband

  Opportunity, Phones, Class

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

  David Miliband

  Decision, Ends, Made

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Turning every business into an environmental industry will involve applying new principles...first, we need to make more with less...second, we need to design out waste...third, we must begin to decarbonise our energy supply

  David Miliband

  Business, Design, Environmental

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• Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick.

  David Miliband

  Sick, Childhood, Environmental

  David Miliband's Speech at TUC Congress, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2006.

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• The clearest evidence that we are living beyond environmental means is the threat of dangerous climate change. The scale of this threat, to human life and to the natural resources and assets on which it depends, for everything from oxygen and clean water to healthy soils and flood defence, means that this simply must be our top priority

  David Miliband

  Mean, Oxygen, Water

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• We are living as if we had three planets' worth of resources to live with rather than just one. We need to cut by about two-thirds our ecological footprint. For that we need one planet farming as well as one planet living - one planet farming which minimises the impact on the environment of food production and consumption, and which maximises its contribution to renewal of the natural environment

  David Miliband

  Cutting, Impact, Two

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• You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there's no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you've got...

  David Miliband

  Hate, Live Life, Yield

  "David Miliband: politics for the pinched generation". Interview with Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2012.

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• We know from history that the way wars are concluded is absolutely the key to whether or not there is any peace to be kept.

  David Miliband

  War

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the Con into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the VAT into Conservative!

  David Miliband

  Vat, Conservative, Cameron

  "David Miliband: 'You've punished us enough about Iraq'". Interview with Patrick Wintour, Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2010.

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• Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

  David Miliband

  Empathy, Vision, Analysis

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Everything about my politics has been about the future.

  David Miliband

  Has Beens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And the truth is, those who are terrorists only have to succeed once, and those of us who are trying to build an inclusive society have to succeed every time.

  David Miliband

  Trying, Succeed, Truth Is

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

  David Miliband

  British Politics, Shields, Committed

  "Brothers who would be king". Interview With Vincent Moss, www.mirror.co.uk. August 29, 2010.

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• The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later.

  David Miliband

  Wedding, Aunt, Hands

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker.

  David Miliband

  Thinking, Bakers, Mark

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• First of all, we have to say loud and clear to all those who are engaged in the fighting that attention to and respect for humanitarian needs is absolutely imperative. Anyone with any knowledge of Iraq, never mind any concern about the future, knows that the way in which the war is prosecuted has a big impact on what comes afterwards.

  David Miliband

  War, Fighting, Mind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We are a European nation - must stay one.

  David Miliband

  Nations

  Twitter post from Jun 24, 2016

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• One thing that I feel very, very strongly is that we talk about Islamic countries, Islamic people, Islamic leaders, as either moderates or extremists. It's almost like there are only two categories of Muslims. And actually, that doesn't show respect. It shows lack of understanding of the diversity of Muslim thought.

  David Miliband

  Country, Islamic, Two

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Thirty years ago, if you said the country was living beyond its means, people would have thought about economics. Now, if you talk about the country, or the planet living beyond its means, you think about the environment. We are taking out more than we are giving back. We are consuming energy, water, and other natural resources in a way that is leading to huge and often irreversible damage to the planet. So too are most other developed nations. And so too will China and India if they follow the same path of economic development as us

  David Miliband

  Country, Mean, Thinking

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• Crushing defeat for Great Britain #Euref. History will show no one won today.

  David Miliband

  Crush, Today, Defeat

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, its perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there.

  David Miliband

  Water, Should, Said

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• If you decide to run for the leadership, you have to go through it with the people you love. But you also have to protect them and I am determined to protect my mum.

  David Miliband

  Running, People, Determined

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.

  David Miliband

  Commitment, Political, Environmental

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• The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim.

  David Miliband

  Christian, Climate, East

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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