On top of that, we have a healthy and stable economy and an end to the boom and bust that characterised the Tory years.

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could.

The economic times we are facing... are arguably the worst they've been in 60 years. And I think it's going to be more profound and long-lasting than people thought.

We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country.

We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to shut the door and switch off the electricity.

The key thing that went wrong was that a culture was allowed to develop where the relationship between what people did and what they got went way out of alignment, especially at the top end.

Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.

As I said, there are two approaches-first, a strong economy, stability and helping families or, secondly, the Tory cuts, the undermining of stability, and a return to the boom and bust of the 1990s.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

I think ever since Numbers ended, I've been trying to find a way to get back in a situation like that. It was lovely to drive in traffic with other people going to their jobs every day.

only when we have a respect for time will we have learned something of the art of living.

I want to sit on my couch and drink and not change my pants for days at a time.

I can't tan naturally.

The beginning don't matter. The end don't matter. All that matters is what you do in between...the greatest reward is to know that you did your job when you were here on the planet.

You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves.

Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they're well too soon, with the same result.

We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.