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

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.

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.

The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.

The snooze button is useless if you love life enough to get up on time.

Buzz is not what I am looking for.

You want to be greedy when others are fearful.

The security of our country is not just a top priority, it's the top priority.

I don't have the slightest desire to speak over my dead brother. It gets on my nerves to always be compared with him. My brother was a magnificent person and an outstanding actor.

The library is…a university of the people, from which the students are never graduated.

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

Consumers have to understand that the purpose of these claims is to get them to buy the product.

And what is it, according to Plato, that philosophy is supposed to do? Nothing less than to render violence to our sense of ourselves and our world, our sense of ourselves in the world.

A pretty sight, a lady with a book.