"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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"The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations."

Lakhdar Brahimi, Algerian Public Servant

Gain, Nations, Respect, United

"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

Gain, Present, Satisfaction, Workers

"On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation."

Charles Darwin, English Scientist

Gain,

"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

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

Peter Mandelson, British Politician

Gain, Open, Trade

"I could never gain much weight. I've always had a fast metabolism."

Marc Wallice, American Actor

Gain, Weight

"If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk."

Robert Baden-Powell, English Soldier

Gain, Listening, Observation, Occupation

"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

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"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

"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

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"Our party believes in diversity, not uniformity."

Diversity

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

God

"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

"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

"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 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

"The party at its best has always been a modern party."

Party

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

Vote

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

Diversity

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

Acceptance