What I will say will not always please you, but what I say will always be honest and true and how I genuinely see it.

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.

Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.

We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.

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

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