"For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why."

People, Decisions, Information, Past

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"For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why."

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"I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe."

Attitude

"If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization."

Time

"We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization."

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"The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world."

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"I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one."

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"I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this."

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"I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair."

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"In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors."

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"In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy."

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