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 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.

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.

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.

Not to take one's own suffering seriously, to make light of it or even to laugh at it, is considered good manners in our culture.

God, if he believed in Him, and his conscience, if he had one, were the only judges to whom he was answerable.

A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.

An artist's job is to be interested in things as they are.

I think that decisions should rest in the hands of the states. I'm a federalist.

I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today.

Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.

I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

You can't look at the tax cut on a family until you realized how - how much better off they're going to be in a growing economy.