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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

Once you are at the point where you can call yourself a writer, there's no turning back.

Being told you are wrong or insulted, gives you an opportunity to practice decency and having a non-response internally.

Gaining visibility is just the process of being SEEN so that you can connect with others.

I suppose ultimately I'm interested in music. I'm a musician. I'm not a gunslinger. That's the difference between what I do and what a lot of guitar heroes do.

It's a luxury to have so much time, especially with someone so important and busy. You have to get a feel for the person.

After playing so many songs in churches for eight or nine years, I've learned what songs people react to. Then I just had fun with the arrangements. That's how this album came together.

I feel like people who are guarded and shut off, I feel like they should have to wear a button that says, "shut down", "guarded" or something.

Bad news has no limits. We often feel it should, like a rainstorm that can't possibly get any heavier. But a storm can always worsen, & the burdens of life can too.

The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.

Hast thou not learnd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest, and that the battle is the Lords?