I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.

Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.

I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.

Scotland cannot be the only 'something for nothing' country in the world.

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

What I will say will not always please you, but what I say will always be honest and true and how I genuinely see it.

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

We shall seek debate without division or rancour.

My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the best for my family. It is not a contest between the two.

I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.

Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

Change is an opportunity to grow. Change is not an adversity to fear.

Most of us save our best behavior for those whom we barely know and show our worst side to those we know the best.

My opinion is that politicians should be humble in the face of history. And whenever history is a matter of debate, it should be left in the hands of historians and experts.

If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.

The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics.

Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.

I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first.

God help us we're in the hands of engineers.

The typical American voter is so stupid, his dog teaches him tricks.

By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are going to become a philosopher.