I want our party to step up its efforts to reflect and champion the concerns of everybody who has reached the second half of their lives.
From Charles Kennedy
Liberals have been committed to the principles of human rights, international stability, and international justice. They have also sought international solutions to those problems which have demanded collective attention.
When human rights are systematically abused, it raises the question whether it may be legitimate in some circumstances for the international community to intervene within individual states as well as in conflicts between states.
When it comes to our public services, decentralisation means giving power back to those on the front line - our doctors, nurses, teachers and physiotherapists, and our locally elected officials.
Those who use our public services should be able to deal directly with those who manage and deliver them.
Decentralisation is controversial - but that's fine. We should be fearless about having a debate.
We actually believe in hope. But hope requires purpose. And purpose requires direction.
Soon after the 1997 election, I argued that there was no inverse law of political gravity which said that everything which went down had to come back up.
When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules.
New Labour needs to realise that family life and the way we raise our children are private matters.
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