Douglas Alexander Quotes
As Scots - like everyone else - we live in an increasingly inter-connected world that demands shared solutions to shared problems. Walking away from others have never been our way. Walking with others has been our heritage and still represents our best future.
Douglas Alexander
Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson.
Douglas Alexander
Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
If Nick Clegg hadn't been sitting around the cabinet table, we wouldn't have had the bedroom tax; we wouldn't have had the rise in tuition fees. We wouldn't have had the mistakes we've seen in economic policy.
Douglas Alexander
Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Traditionally, diplomacy was done in an environment of information scarcity. Ambassadors would send back telegrams to foreign ministries, comfortable in the knowledge that their views of a country would be the only source of information the minister would see.
Douglas Alexander
Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
This Network Generation have grown up in a connected world. With Skype, Facebook, Twitter and the Internet, the world is at their fingertips via their smart phone. They find the idea of watching TV programmes at a time to suit the broadcaster quaint and old-fashioned.
Douglas Alexander
Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Of course the decision to commit British forces in Iraq was, for many MPs, a wrenching choice. However, our responsibility in the face of a growing ISIS threat is not to be paralysed by history, but to learn the correct lessons from it.
Douglas Alexander
Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Having disrupted business practices, social interactions and political campaigns, 2011 will be seen as the year that the rise of the Internet first disrupted foreign relations.
Douglas Alexander
Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
As times change, so do the way each generation see the world. It is rather like the way our generation came to see our grandparents' views on the Empire and colonies as outdated.
Douglas Alexander
Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Newspapers can make their own judgment in terms of who they support in a general election. Our responsibility is to make a considered judgment about where the national interest lies.
Douglas Alexander
Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
The style of politics that Damian McBride represents has been discredited, and Labour has moved on.
Douglas Alexander
Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
What people want is a sense of a better future to come.
Douglas Alexander
Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
It is already clear that, because of advances in technology, drones are going to play an increased role in warfare in the years ahead. It is therefore vital that the legal frameworks governing their use are robust and internationally recognised.
Douglas Alexander
Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
It seems to me that the Conservatives neither recognise the scale of the living standards crisis facing British families nor offer credible answers as to how the British economy or British society can be better in the future.
Douglas Alexander
Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option.
Douglas Alexander
Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Just as people have long believed that strengthening ties of trade improves the prospects for peace and the free exchange of ideas, Facebook friendships or Twitter followings already transcend national borders.
Douglas Alexander
Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
I'm in agreement with David Miliband when he says our generation of Labour politicians are not willing to hand over the direction of the country without a serious electoral fight.
Douglas Alexander
Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Of course we need to show we are a genuine alternative to an unpopular, Conservative-led government. But we need to set ourselves a higher standard than a party offering anger like UKIP.
Douglas Alexander
Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
As Development Secretary, I have seen in the developing world that climate change there is not a theory, is not a future threat: it is a contemporary crisis.
Douglas Alexander
Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Politicians often reveal most about themselves in unguarded moments.
Douglas Alexander
Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Most people understand that Lehman Brothers didn't collapse because Gordon Brown built too many schools and hospitals.
Douglas Alexander
Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
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