I spent ridiculous amounts of time as an activist and volunteer and was a teacher for 20 years.

Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.

I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.

Scotland cannot be the only 'something for nothing' country in the world.

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

What I will say will not always please you, but what I say will always be honest and true and how I genuinely see it.

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

We shall seek debate without division or rancour.

My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the best for my family. It is not a contest between the two.

I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.

Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

Life as we know it is our perception of reality.

It only takes luck to make the right choices in life”.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.

I'm not scared to spend money. If you go out with me one night, you will understand that.

Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.

I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do

It is indeed a wondrous universal alchemy, is it not? When one's heartfelt intentions cause mountains to move.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

It's a human instinct to be known.