"Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times."
-Lucy Powell
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"At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.“
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"It's not a matter of if economies around the world becoming low-carbon, but when and how: through struggle and strife or through advancement and progressive leadership. Larry Elliot described it today as the 'Green New Deal.' It's a leadership we in Britain can provide, and from which our economy can benefit."
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"I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up."
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"Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks."
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"In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges, transportation, factory technology and new skills needed for the new industrialised world."
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"For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in."
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"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other."
-Eric Hoffer
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-John Lennon
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"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
-Edmund Burke
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
-Sigmund Freud
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