Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain.

It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.

There are genuine questions to be asked about why we now have the highest level of employment in many decades, contrary to the position during the boom-bust years of the Conservatives.

It's important to learn the right lessons from the past.

If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper.

What we are going to offer is not a one-way communication, but one-to-one communication.

Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson.

We can have enhanced devolution - greater powers in Scotland - but within the strength, security and stability of the United Kingdom, and I think that's what most Scots want.

My vision for Scotland is one in which we fight together for the values we are care about: equality, fairness and social justice. Those values are the same whether you live in Dumfries or Carlisle.

Whether your pleasing or pissing everybody off, your doing something wrong.

Just win. Period.

Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?

False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.

Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.

I think you often learn from failure. Success just teaches you how great you were, but in fact it's knowing what will fail that will help you to make the right choices.

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching.

When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.