Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

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.

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.

How can a bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?

High walls and deep precipices on your path or hard rocks and big holes are not real obstacles! There is only one real obstacle on your path: Absence of self-confidence!

It may be that only when xenophobia stops working as an election winner will the way be cleared for a return to bipartisanship

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake but as he was given to saying it straightened out one's thoughts.

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.

All my different kinds of artwork have been designed to inspire people to think. They may not always agree with me, but at least they will have some feelings and some passion about whatever it is.

I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.

Damien Vesper Didn't plan on killing anyone today

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.