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“By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them.”
“I believe when the country feels threatened it is important that we are seen to be working together to find an appropriate structure for dealing with terrorists in our midst.”
“For any new leader of any party at any given time it takes time if you are not in government to establish yourself.”
“I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!”
“I find no contradiction between being a Highlander, a Scot, a citizen of the U.K. and a citizen of the European Union at one and the same time.”
“The growing influence of focus groups means we are all in danger of being excessively cowed by their feedback.”
“Fair votes - fundamentally - are about the rights and the interests of the people.”
“If British troops are committed to action, then the nation will, of course, support them. Their courage and skill is not in doubt.”
“I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.”
“I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them.”
“I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.”
“I know from my own parents how important active older people are to a local community.”
“It has been the greatest privilege of my adult and public life to have served, for 32 years, as the Member of Parliament for our local Highlands and Islands communities.”
“We all accept the world would be safer without Saddam's baleful dictatorship.”
“We actually believe in hope. But hope requires purpose. And purpose requires direction.”
“It would be a tragedy if the remarkable international coalition against terrorism, successfully marshalled in the aftermath of 11 September, were to fragment over a unilateral U.S. strike against Baghdad.”
“My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way.”
“It is my determination that we, as a party, continue to make that fundamental restatement of liberal values in the politics of our country.”
“We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.”
“The government's instinct is to shroud itself in secrecy - to act like the office of a president instead of as a collective cabinet government held to account by the elected House of Commons.”