"So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes."

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"So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes."

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"Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain."

Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian Writer

Gain, Mankind, May

"Now I understand what was happening. I don't particularly gain water; I don't have water retention."

Suzanne Somers, American Actress

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"I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation."

Peter Mandelson, British Politician

Gain, Open, Trade

"FDR created today's 30 percent coalition. Obama wants to finish the job by turning it into a permanent ruling majority. There's nothing new about the Obama Narrative. It is the FDR Narrative on steroids. It is intended to lead to greater statism and political gain."

Arthur C. Brooks, American Author

Gain, Job, Majority, Nothing

"Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin."

Hesiod, Greek Poet

Gain, Ruin

"Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another."

Milton Friedman, American Economist

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"But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago."

Merton Miller, American Economist

Gain, Loss, Practice, Suffering

"I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage."

Joe Theismann, American Athlete

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"A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers."

James Larkin, Irish Activist

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"To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain."

Acceptance

"For the most part our grassroots members are serious, nice, tolerant people."

People

"Our share of the vote overall rose by less than 1 per cent - yes, that's right: less than 1 per cent."

Vote

"We should be the natural home for younger voters. But today we're not. Because too often we sound like people who just don't like contemporary Britain."

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"Our party's committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime."

Crime

"We said in our 21st Century Party paper there are 61 mosaic groups, which the market research people use as different socio-economic categories and half of our members come from just five of those groups and that is very narrow - too narrow."

People

"It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party."

Leadership

"I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change."

Leadership

"If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us."

Trust

"Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed."

God