Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.

I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.

I'm sure nobody wants to know this, but my husband does all the cleaning - rather too much cleaning. It is too clean, the house!

I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have men-only leadership.

I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality.

I am a very big admirer of Hillary 's and I am an admirer of Obama as well.

Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.

For many young people mobility has turned into a bus down to the job centre.

There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.

I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance [EMA], trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people.

Leading the party is a privilege not a right.

The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal

To this day I don’t know if he was struggling with the moral implications of gunning down half a dozen civilians, or if he was mentally counting to see if he had that many shells left in the gun.

Oh, sorry. I’m not . . . uh . . . interrupting something that will make me uncomfortable, am I?

It's a a damn good day to be alive.

Who has that absolute trust, to fling yourself into mortality, to let it do with you as it will, with all the permutations and possibilities of as it will, be it horror or ecstasy or boredom?

Let's finally guarantee equal pay for women.

It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can be more powerful than they are.

The real reason for health claims is well established: health claims sell food products.

My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.

Who we listen to determines what we hear. Where we stand determines what we see. What we do determines who we are.