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

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.

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.

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.

The same current that drifts your boat may sink mine. No two persons walking this earth are the same, not even twins. Keep this in mind when dealing with others.

Kindness is goodness hidden in the heartMore often than declared in speech.

...we'll first address our inaccurate view of God and, consequently of ourselves.

I swear so soon as age will permit ... I will use fire and steel to arrest the destiny of Rome.

Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.

The really great thing about having two TV shows going on at the same time is that I can go to one and say that I have to go and visit the other and then I can just go home and they don't know.

If a movement is to have an impact it must belong to those who join it, not those who lead it.