As for those that carried out these attacks there are no adequate words of condemnation. Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

One thing I'm not sure of - and it's a very open question - is whether the type of politics that I represent really has had its day or not. Now I obviously believe passionately it hasn't, that it's still the answer and not the problem, and, you know, the evidence points both ways.

I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

Ever so often in the history of human endeavour, there comes a breakthrough that takes humankind across a frontier into a new era. ... today's announcement is such a breakthrough, a breakthrough that opens the way for massive advancement in the treatment of cancer and hereditary diseases. And that is only the beginning.

The only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively and individually, to help each other on the basis of each other's equal worth. A selfish society is a contradiction in terms.