I don't get up in the morning and think my mission is to end Britain. I do get up in the morning and think that my mission is to end poverty.

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.

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

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.

That's a very admirable quality in a wife. The ability to admit she is in the wrong.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.

That's what makes me keep playing every day is the fact that I'm not quite there, you know. There's always more for me to be able to do.

I can’t understand it when people say they don’t like a particular color. . . . How on earth can you not like a color?

I had been practicing guitar about six months beforehand; I concentrated mostly on the songs I had to play. I got those down pretty well so they could use me actually playing.

Better to separate than never to marry.

I want to know." His words are a whisper, barely audible. "I want to know with you.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

Growing up in the entertainment industry, I've had a lot of people tell me I'm not good enough.