As a young woman in politics, with few women around, you start to subconsciously behave like men in politics. That comes across as quite hard, tough and humorless, but you're trying to be taken seriously.
When I was growing up, I was lucky to benefit from a first class education.
One of the attributes Glasgow is best known for all over the world is the friendliness of her people.
Glasgow is a great city.
Labour long ago realised it could no longer automatically assume that it would win elections in Glasgow and other places where it has taken people's votes for granted for decades - as we have seen across Scotland at local council and Holyrood elections.
I bow to no one in my ambition to see Glasgow be as successful as it possibly can be.
A good education is the most important gift we can give our young people.
I believe we should support people to live, and I am therefore in favour of good quality palliative care.
I am the granddaughter of an English woman. I love England and her people and, regardless of politics, consider you to be family... and always will.
Taxing people for having a spare bedroom and forcing them into rent arrears or the possibility of losing homes they have lived in for years has always been a cruel and heartless measure, and so it is good that the Scottish Parliament has been able to step in.
I am quite hot-headed; I am quite impulsive. Fortunately, it doesn't last very long.
What a war in Iraq will not do is bring about peace in the Middle East or end the injustices that feed resentment and breed terrorists.
Ed Balls has made it crystal clear that, left to its own devices, a Labour government would simply carry on with the same budget policies as the Tories.
Is it not typical that we have a Tory Government that wants, just like its pals in the Labour Party, constantly to talk down Scotland's prospects?
It is clear that my predecessor as First Minister is frightening the life out of the Tories and the Labour Party. Long may it continue.
The fact that healthier lifestyles and advances in medicine mean that we are living longer is actually something to be celebrated.
Our opposition to Trident is very clear, very firm, very long-standing, very principled, and we would seek to build an alliance to prevent the renewal of Trident.
I've not had a deliberate image makeover.
Scotland never voted for Margaret Thatcher.
I drove my mum and dad mad.