A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.

Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.

I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'

I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.

I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.

I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.

When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.

I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.

Aim to be the blue ribbon best. Have high standards and work to be exceptional. Develop yourself from practice to be a winner at what you do.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

The essential truth of life, he was coming to realize, wasn't romantic an took only two words to label: Shit. Happens.

There seemed to be endless obstacles ... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

Live life to the fullest. Follow your dreams - don't let anything stop you.

To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.

If you have ever spray-painted your girlfriends name on an overpass, you might be a redneck.

I was a very independent teenager.

Take great comfort in knowing that ALL great feats are accomplished one small step at a time.

I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.