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.

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.

We're going to start the game at nil-nil and go out and try to get some goals.

Learn your techniques well and be prepared to let them go when you touch the human soul.

Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.

When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.

With the Cubs, they've gone so long without a World Series championship, they wanted to win every day. I want that too, but I didn't feel comfortable.

Many things are linked to being able to live with uncertainty, ...with paradoxes. But this can be a strength of an organisation and a situation.

Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.

Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.

Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again

This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do.