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.

We Liberal Democrats believe in dialogue. We believe in cooperation with both sides of industry and between both sides of industry. And we believe in the language of cooperation. We reject the language of confrontation.

There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.

I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket.

There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.

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

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