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

I'm pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.

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

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

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.

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.

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.