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" Stories come and go. The challenge is to frame the questions that voters will be asking on polling day, such as who has avoided a global depression and worked here to deliver jobs. "

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" David Cameron's approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile. "

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" Of course the decision to commit British forces in Iraq was, for many MPs, a wrenching choice. However, our responsibility in the face of a growing ISIS threat is not to be paralysed by history, but to learn the correct lessons from it. "

" Politics requires the sense of possibility. Dare I say it - the audacity of hope. "

" If you're part of the Network Generation, you don't have to belong just to one nation. Dual identities come easily to these dual screeners. They fear a separate Scotland would be a narrowing, not a broadening, experience. "

" Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson. "

" The Conservatives are so busy focusing on yesterday, they're not focused on tomorrow... on how elections are won in the 21st century. "

" In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option. "

" The scale of the ISIS threat is not yet matched by a clarity of approach for securing their defeat. "

" A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me. "

" Scotland and England may sometimes be rivals, but by geography, we are also neighbours. By history, allies. By economics, partners. And by fate and fortune, comrades, friends and family. "

" Any politician in a democracy has to be mindful of public opinion. "

" Historically, Labour has used technology as a form of control. We would use pagers and faxes to send out messages telling people what line to take. The key learning from the Obama campaign is to use technology to empower your supporters. "

" The 'Arab Spring' is the most spectacular example of the dispersal of power. "

" Being prime minister is not a job to be performed with an eye for the exit. "

" I don't get up in the morning and think my mission is to end Britain. I do get up in the morning and think that my mission is to end poverty. "

" The Nationalists peddle a misplaced cultural conceit that holds that everyone south of the Solway Firth is an austerity loving Tory. "

" David Cameron can change the branding of the party, but he can't change the beliefs. "

" As Scots, we certainly want change today, but the change the Nationalists offer is not the change we want or need. "

" Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain. "

" If Nick Clegg hadn't been sitting around the cabinet table, we wouldn't have had the bedroom tax; we wouldn't have had the rise in tuition fees. We wouldn't have had the mistakes we've seen in economic policy. "

" Most people understand that Lehman Brothers didn't collapse because Gordon Brown built too many schools and hospitals. "

" As Scots - like everyone else - we live in an increasingly inter-connected world that demands shared solutions to shared problems. Walking away from others have never been our way. Walking with others has been our heritage and still represents our best future. "

" It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. "

" Just as people have long believed that strengthening ties of trade improves the prospects for peace and the free exchange of ideas, Facebook friendships or Twitter followings already transcend national borders. "

" We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale. "

" A self-evidently confident politician, Cameron still suffers from a curious hollowness. Ten years after he became Conservative leader, many people still question what he actually stands for or believes in. "

" David Cameron wants people to believe that his isolation in Europe is a result of Britain being outnumbered when it matters most. "

" I've never been interested in self-promotion and that side of politics; and if that means people judge that you're less prominent than others, that's a choice I've been willing to make. "

" The Network Generation are secure in, and proud of, their Scottishness. Unlike my generation that grew up in the '80s, they don't see our sense of identity as under threat. "

" Our responsibility is to protect people and help them into work. "