We can only converse if we can speak the same language. So if we are going to build One Nation, we need to start with everyone in Britain knowing how to speak English.

I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.

Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us.

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick.

I've supported Jeremy Corbyn all the way along because I think that was the right thing to do. I've reluctantly reached the conclusion that his position is untenable.

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the Con into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the VAT into Conservative!

Love is a donation. Donation is an appreciation.

If the lords of the underworld can't bring me out of this funk, no one can.

If you're happy you're wealthy! Happiness doesn't need a bank account.

I'm a great believer in compromises. I do not believe in capitulation.

You make a living from 8 to 5, but you make money from 5 to 8.

Lobbying is the world's second - oldest profession.

At the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work.

I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language.

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.