Ed Miliband Quotations

It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.

This is a proud day and an important step forward in the fight for equality in Britain. The overwhelming majority of Labour MPs supported this change to make sure marriage reflects the value we place on long-term, loving relationships whoever you love.

I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses

Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve.

I treat opinion polls with a pinch of sugar.

We can only converse if we can speak the same language. So if we are going to build One Nation, we need to start with everyone in Britain knowing how to speak English.

One nation banking recognises that banks must not be isolated from the rest of the economy. Because banks and small businesses must succeed or fail together, banks must lend to small businesses so we can get the growth and jobs we need for the future. As things stand, that is not happening enough. Lending was down £10.8billion last year.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.