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.

Maybe I was just born to argue with men.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.

Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.

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

While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

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