87 Quotes by Douglas Alexander

I think politicians who suggest they are uninterested in the support of newspapers are not being straight with people.

In every generation, there are horrors that define an age and events that scar the global conscience.

In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option.

Kneejerk interventionism or kneejerk isolationism is the wrong course for Britain.

Most people understand that Lehman Brothers didn't collapse because Gordon Brown built too many schools and hospitals.

Of course we are looking to win support across every section of society. We win support by speaking to voters on the issues they most care about.

We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

Scotland and England may sometimes be rivals, but by geography, we are also neighbours. By history, allies. By economics, partners. And by fate and fortune, comrades, friends and family.

My general approach to opposition is where the government is getting something right, we should say so. And where we disagree with them, we should say so, too.