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Quote by David Miliband
My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives

My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics. – David Miliband

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In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised. – David Miliband

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The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later. – David Miliband

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