My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way.

I'm a fully paid-up member of the human race.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.

I have never once been persuaded as to the causal link between the Iraqi regime, al-Qaeda and September 11. I do believe the impact of war under these circumstances is bound to weaken the international coalition against terrorism itself.

You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.

If you were to describe me as teetotal, on behalf of my constituency I'd have to sue; that would lose me every vote in the Highlands.