Ed Miliband Quotations

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.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

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.

The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.

I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.

I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

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.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

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.

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.

Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.

We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.

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.

This is a proud day and an important step forward in the fight for equality in Britain. The overwhelming majority of Labour MPs supported this change to make sure marriage reflects the value we place on long-term, loving relationships whoever you love.

We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses

Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve.

I treat opinion polls with a pinch of sugar.

We can only converse if we can speak the same language. So if we are going to build One Nation, we need to start with everyone in Britain knowing how to speak English.

One nation banking recognises that banks must not be isolated from the rest of the economy. Because banks and small businesses must succeed or fail together, banks must lend to small businesses so we can get the growth and jobs we need for the future. As things stand, that is not happening enough. Lending was down £10.8billion last year.

In good times, people turn to Left wing parties, in bad times, they say, well, possibly Left-wing parties can't make those tough decisions... We've got to buck that trend

Margaret Thatcher was the first political leader in any major country to warn of the dangers of climate change

The transition to a low-carbon economy will be one of the defining issues of the 21st century. This plan sets out a route-map for the UK's transition from here to 2020...every business, every community will need to be involved. Together we can create a more secure, more prosperous low carbon Britain and a world which is sustainable for future generations.

We have to create security for the working families of Britain, and that's what I'll do

One of the drivers of displacement and potential conflict over the next 10 to 20 years will be climate (change) - resource scarcity, climate change is going to compound the cocktail that's driving war and displacement.

I've supported Jeremy Corbyn all the way along because I think that was the right thing to do. I've reluctantly reached the conclusion that his position is untenable.

Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us.