It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.

We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't.

I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.

So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.

Everyone now claims to be a moderniser and it's obvious, really. I mean, no one now says 'We need to go backwards... to the days of Lord Salisbury'.

The party at its best has always been a modern party.

We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.

Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.

If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us.

The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.

David Cameron's message of change, optimism and hope is in tune with what Britain wants today

Topics... are what people talk about when they don't know each other well. Topics... are what men talk about.

There are many ways your intuition can get a message to you. You will start to pick them up once you learn to quiet the mental chatter.

As the sergeant said to the recruit: "You might as well be happy mate - no one cares if you ain't."

I'm not a fan of musicals at all, but I do think 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is a very good. I always thought 'Walk the Line' was very good, too.

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

Joy is the echo of God's life within us.

Go and do, don't sit and stew.

The renunciation of doing harm is the perfection of discipline

The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures.