Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.

It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.

There are genuine questions to be asked about why we now have the highest level of employment in many decades, contrary to the position during the boom-bust years of the Conservatives.

It's important to learn the right lessons from the past.

If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper.

Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain.

What we are going to offer is not a one-way communication, but one-to-one communication.

Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson.

We can have enhanced devolution - greater powers in Scotland - but within the strength, security and stability of the United Kingdom, and I think that's what most Scots want.

My vision for Scotland is one in which we fight together for the values we are care about: equality, fairness and social justice. Those values are the same whether you live in Dumfries or Carlisle.

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

Meet me in the courtyard in half an hour, then,” said Will. “I’ll wake Cyril. And be prepared to swoon at my finery.

Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.

The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well

The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the inevitable natural phenomenon of scarcity.

I'm not mad. I'm a writer.

Hi,” Piper said, as casually as she could. “We’re back.

The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.