3 December 2020 David Miliband 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.
3 December 2020 David Miliband In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.
3 December 2020 David Miliband 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.
3 December 2020 David Miliband My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze.
3 December 2020 David Miliband I’ve committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.
3 December 2020 David Miliband 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.
3 December 2020 David Miliband 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.
3 December 2020 David Miliband 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.
3 December 2020 David Miliband You have to believe that it’s through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.
3 December 2020 David Miliband The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.
