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" We can have enhanced devolution - greater powers in Scotland - but within the strength, security and stability of the United Kingdom, and I think that's what most Scots want. "

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" I do think our challenge is to balance credibility and a clear message about how we would reduce the deficit with boldness about the choices that we put before the public. "

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" It would be wrong for us to offer difference from the Conservative Party at the cost of credibility, but equally it would be wrong to offer credibility at the cost of being clear that there remain very fundamental differences. "

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

" Traditionally, diplomacy was done in an environment of information scarcity. Ambassadors would send back telegrams to foreign ministries, comfortable in the knowledge that their views of a country would be the only source of information the minister would see. "

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

" It is already clear that, because of advances in technology, drones are going to play an increased role in warfare in the years ahead. It is therefore vital that the legal frameworks governing their use are robust and internationally recognised. "

" The Olympics is a time primarily for sport and celebration, but diplomacy does not stop at the door of the U.N., and for it to work, it must be sustained and consistent. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" My general approach to opposition is where the government is getting something right, we should say so. And where we disagree with them, we should say so, too. "

" Labour's task for government is to build consent for an outward-looking Britain as the best way to advance not just our interests, but also our values at a time of challenge, both at home and abroad. "

" 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. "

" The Commonwealth is a vital and positive partnership between countries striving to develop trade relations and promote democracy and human rights, united by shared values. "

" What we are going to offer is not a one-way communication, but one-to-one communication. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Politicians diminish themselves by sounding robotic. "

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

" I think politicians who suggest they are uninterested in the support of newspapers are not being straight with people. "

" My vision for Scotland is one in which we fight together for the values we are care about: equality, fairness and social justice. Those values are the same whether you live in Dumfries or Carlisle. "

" What people want is a sense of a better future to come. "

" In every generation, there are horrors that define an age and events that scar the global conscience. "

" There's no doubt that what has emerged in the years after 9/11, unlike the situation in Britain, there were practices sanctioned in the U.S. that fall far below the standard of conduct that should have taken place. It is for the American system of government, in all of its branches, to address that. It is not for a British politician. "

" Newspapers can make their own judgment in terms of who they support in a general election. Our responsibility is to make a considered judgment about where the national interest lies. "

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

" 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. "

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