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.

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.

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.

The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.

Our thoughts dictate how we feel

I feel comfortable in a position of leadership, but that's not to say I feel complacent about it. I take it incredibly seriously.

But experiments went for nothing,-dualism had sworn to uphold its position.

Raise your energy. You attract what you radiate.

I think the notion that we are different just because of skin color, and that we should be kept apart or kept from interbreeding, is very hurtful.

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.

No man can climb the ladder of success without first placing his foot on the bottom rung.

As the world is weary of me so am I of it.

It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.