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.

Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.

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.

The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.

The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?