If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

Scotland cannot be the only 'something for nothing' country in the world.

The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.

It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.

My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.