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

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.

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.

We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.

If it was appropriate to judge a person based on her footwear - and it obviously was - I decided I liked her immediately.

We believe that all those who are served should also spend time serving.

Owning a great golf course gives you great power.

Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.

I know, but I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.

Because He moves against faults, God is said to be angered, although He is moved by no disturbance of equanimity.