"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."

Gain, Support

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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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"To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Gain,

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

Peter Mandelson, British Politician

Gain, Open, Trade

"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

Gain, Party

"Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain."

Euripides, Greek Poet

Gain, Ignorance

"We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own."

George W. Bush, American President

Gain, Man, Moon, Ships

"You must lose everything in order to gain anything."

Brad Pitt, American Actor

Gain, Order

"We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation."

Martin Feldstein, American Economist

Gain, Inflation

"It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons."

Tom Clancy, American Novelist

Gain, Loss, Right, Vietnam

"Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain."

William Vickrey, Canadian Educator

Gain, Loss, Sales

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

Hesiod, Greek Poet

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

People

"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."

Home

"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

"We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't."

Diversity

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

Crime

"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

"We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Because too often we've sounded like people who wish they hadn't come here at all."

Home

"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 young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother."

Home

"But if we can work with people in other parties to get the right answer for the country we'll do that."

Work