And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition.

And I hope very much that the ALP will become increasingly engaged in the international discussions that are taking place amongst centre-left parties generally.

Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.

Business leaders must not cling to old ways of doing business, or allow inertia or complacency to prevent them from making the decisions that they will eventually be forced to make.

Fifty per cent of the public doesn't know what 'fifty per cent' means.

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.

The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P.M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for this small dim man to go back to Texas and resume his life.

We live in the most epic of fantasy worlds.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Entrepreneurs usually don't listen to people. Trust them to do their job. Remember, you invested with the understanding the project was likely to fail.

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.

Say that I starved; that I was lost and weary; That I was burned and blinded by the desert sun; Footsore, thirsty, sick with strange diseases; Lonely and wet and cold, but that I kept my dream!

I want to be efficient and effective in everything I do.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.

I have had no professional training.