Quotes from Ed Miliband

Remember, I'm the guy who didn't want the referendum - I wouldn't have had it if I'd been prime minister. But you have to respect how people voted because this was partly about political alienation, so if the response to political alienation is to ignore it, that's a recipe for more political alienation.

People want bigger, bolder answers to the problems that exist. I felt, as leader, 'My analysis is big; are the answers big enough?'

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

In good times, people turn to Left wing parties, in bad times, they say, well, possibly Left-wing parties can't make those tough decisions... We've got to buck that trend

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

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

Scepticism and cynicism about politics is so great that one of the best counters to it is what you can do at a local level.

The numbers that we can welcome to our own countries are relatively small in comparison to the millions that have been displaced, but it's vital because it sets an example.

This idea about cheerful thinking, a digital platform for people to present their ideas, organise events around the country - that is what I am focused on building: a digital think-tank for the modern age that can help show people things can be better; the world can be different.

You're running to be prime minister - it's hard to be the person who makes jokes.

The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

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

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

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.

I think part of the thing that is important to me, and is important to Labour supporters, is that the fight goes on. The fight goes on in relation to this budget, in relation to Europe, and in a way, the history of progressive politics is that there are setbacks - significant setbacks - and you have to overcome that. But obviously it's tough.

Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.

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

We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.

A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.

I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

Do you defend free markets, or do you reform them? It's the same issue that Labour had in the mid-Seventies, and it's the same issue the Tories had after 1945. How do you interact with this new ideological term?

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.