We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.

I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.

Scotland cannot be the only 'something for nothing' country in the world.

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

What I will say will not always please you, but what I say will always be honest and true and how I genuinely see it.

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

We shall seek debate without division or rancour.

My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the best for my family. It is not a contest between the two.

I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.

Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

If you start to do things that nobody does, you will get things that nobody gets.

Writing is like running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand.

That is my story. Believe what you will. I remember it all

We do not require man’s religion for salvation. We do not believe in anything that forces people to keep their places in this world.

People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case.

Ares gives his verdict without witnesses.

Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone

There is but one path. We must kill them all.

In Israel, the maximum legal penalty for denying the existence of God is one year in prison, while the punishment for denying the existence of the Holocaust is up to five years' imprisonment.