We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.

I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.

Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us.

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

We can only converse if we can speak the same language. So if we are going to build One Nation, we need to start with everyone in Britain knowing how to speak English.

Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick.

I've supported Jeremy Corbyn all the way along because I think that was the right thing to do. I've reluctantly reached the conclusion that his position is untenable.

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the Con into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the VAT into Conservative!

Never be afraid of failure. And don't stop yourself from doing something you want to do because of what others might think. Only you know yourself best.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end.

When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud.

Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.

It is clear that the American people are weary of war. However, Assad gassing his own people is an issue of our national security, regional stability and global security.

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.

Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.

The family that I live for only breathes the air that smells of combat.