Be a doer and not a critic.
Education is the best economic policy there is.
Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.
The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.
Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.
The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.
I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.
I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party.
People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.
Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.
My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.
You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.
I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right.
In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.
My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.
But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.
I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.
