Miliband Ed Quotes & Sayings

I don't know Ed Miliband as a person particularly well. — Nicola Sturgeon

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. — Ed Miliband

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

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

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. — Ed Miliband

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

A majority of all defectors who voted Labour in 2010 but for a different party in 2015 said Ed Miliband had helped push them to another party. For those switching to the Tories, the second biggest reason was the fear that a Labour government would spend and borrow too much. — Michael Ashcroft

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. — Ed Miliband

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

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. — Ed Miliband

I'm at one with Ed Miliband in saying that it's important that people have the right to express their democratic voices and also their deep concerns about climate change because we have a planet in peril. — Douglas Alexander

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. — Ed Miliband

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. — Ed Miliband

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

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

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. — Ed Miliband

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 — Ed Miliband

Grown-up politicians talk to each other across party lines. Over the last few weeks I have had lengthy conversations with Ed Miliband, David Miliband, with Tony Blair, with Peter Mandelson ... talking about Europe, talking about political reform. — Nick Clegg

I will do what it takes to help Ed Miliband win general election — Tony Blair

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. — Ed Miliband

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

On the face of it, these look like bad times for Labour and for Ed Miliband's leadership. There seems to be no strategy, no narrative and little energy. Old faces from the Brown era still dominate the shadow cabinet and they seem stuck in defending Labour's record in all the wrong ways: we didn't spend too much money, we'll cut less fast and less far, but we can't tell you how. — Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman

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. — Ed Miliband

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

Under Ed Miliband's leadership, we are changing both our party's structures and culture. — Douglas Alexander

The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere. — Iain Duncan Smith

The Labour party on the whole has not been a very effective opposition since the election, partly because it spent months and months electing its new leader. I think the Labour party should, for one thing, stress much more that for most people in the past 13 years, the period was not one of collapse into chaos but actually one where the situation improved, and particularly in areas such as schools, hospitals and a variety of other cultural achievements - so the idea that somehow or other it all needs to be taken down and ground into the dust is not valid. I think we need to defend what most people think basically needs defending and that is the provision of some form of welfare from the cradle to the grave. — Eric Hobsbawm

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. — Ed Miliband

New Labour leader Ed Miliband announces plan to 'make this party slightly less unelectable by 2015'. He added: 'I am Ed, the Almighty One.'
Defeated brother David Miliband overheard muttering: 'Now I know how Wayne Christ felt after little Jesus came along. — Andy Zaltzman

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. — Ed Miliband

Ed Miliband doesn't give a damn about what he looks like, how he dresses. He came into politics to change society. — Ken Livingstone

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

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

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. — Ed Miliband

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. — Ed Miliband

Ed Miliband is obviously a mild guy. I don't expect him to pretend to be a pugilist. — Robert Webb

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. — Ed Miliband

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. — Ed Miliband

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

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

I treat opinion polls with a pinch of sugar. — Ed Miliband

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. — Ed Miliband

The next Prime Minister walking through that door will be me or (Labour Party leader) Ed Miliband, you can choose an economy that grows, that creates jobs, that generates the money to ensure a properly funded and improving NHS (National Health Service) ... and a government that will cut taxes for 30 million hard-working people ... or you can choose the economic chaos of Ed Miliband's Britain. — David Cameron

Many people supported the Conservatives because of David Cameron, while many people supported Labour despite Ed Miliband. Deteriorating opinions of Cameron will therefore have a bigger impact on the Conservatives' vote share than worsening views of Miliband would have on Labour's. — Michael Ashcroft

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 — Ed Miliband

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. — Ed Miliband

One of Ed Miliband's shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident. — Nicola Sturgeon

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

I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up. — Lucy Powell

Genghis Miliband roars up to the despatch box like a caged donkey. — Andy Zaltzman

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. — Ed Miliband

[Ed Miliband]'s elevated personal abuse into a sort of strategy — Nick Clegg