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

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.

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

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.

Discovery Determines The System Of Education

I soon had to admit that what I did by myself couldn't excite me, only what Lila touched became important.

I fall asleep thinking there is no better elixir than travel. Old things always bored me, boredom always scared me, while travel—travel is a carnival of wild affairs.

I do not choose to run for President in 1928.

Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.

[Rural voters] have a different view of the world than people do in these urban centers.

Believe in yourself and go for it

I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.