There is always room at the top, don't let them tell you there is not.
It's true across the U. K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.
Scotland cannot be the only 'something for nothing' country in the world.
What I will say will not always please you, but what I say will always be honest and true and how I genuinely see it.
Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.
Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.
Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.
Nothing is quite as depressing as depression.
I ain't saying you treated me unkind you could've done better, but I don't mind. You just kinda wasted my precious time. But don't think twice, it's alright.
Every criminal leaves psychic fingerprints. And he can't wear gloves to hide them.
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men.