British - Politician | December 24, 1969 -
My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
Ed Miliband
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While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.
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Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across the country would sympathise with the idea that there are lots of people with talent and ability all across this country who want to make more of themselves and part of the responsibility of government is to make that happen.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.
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Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.
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Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.
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We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.
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The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
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