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[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.
Cowdenbeath Football Club have always been at the centre of Cowdenbeath - literally and in every aspect of community life.
Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the early 1990s.
To make Europe more effective is a worthwhile objective. To make Europe less important in your calculations is a big mistake.
I said that this would be a Budget based on prudence for a purpose and that guides us also in our approach to public spending.
Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care
Think for a moment: what is the British equivalent of the U.S. Fourth of July, or even the French 14th of July for that matter?
When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society.
The Britain I know is the Britain of Jo Cox. The Britain where people are tolerant and not prejudiced, and where people hate hate.
To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.
Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality.
...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.
It will not be a surprise to you to learn I'm more interested in the future of the Arctic Circle than the future of the Arctic Monkeys.
I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.
Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential
Nigel Farage wanted to privatise the health service. Nigel Farage does not believe in the values we believe in for our public services.
Politics seems much less important today. When you see your young daughter smiling as she was, and moving around, it's a superb feeling.
Making the desirable possible requires us to make the desirable popular, electable, credible, and something that people want to hold on to.
In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people.
Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.
We should demonstrate that in war, under Churchill and Lloyd George, and in peace, Britain always was, already is, and can continue to be a leader.
We cannot compromise with the earth; we cannot compromise with the catastrophe of unchecked climate change, so we must compromise with one another.
My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.
Collective European Union action could mean no hiding places for evaders, no safe haven for tax avoiders, and no treasure islands for money launderers.
Rigorous financial discipline that, together with monetary stability, ends once and for all the boom and bust that for 30 years has undermined stability
I am not going to make decisions based on barricades and blockades, nor am I going to make decisions based on the short-term volatility of the oil price.
The IIFA Weekend has my unprecedented support. The relationship between India and the UK is long standing and one we would like to keep developing forever.
The vision of personalised public services - meeting the individual needs of all our citizens - requires continuing reform in the way services are delivered
America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.
In every era, there are only one or two moments when nations come together and reach agreements that make history, because they change the course of history.
We've managed to find a way of making decisions that prevents conflict arising - there has been no war between European members at any point in the last 70 years.
There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society
Our common realm is not and cannot be stripped of values - I absolutely reject the idea that religion should somehow be tolerated but not encouraged in public life.
I never subscribed to what you might call the neo-Conservative position that somehow, at the barrel of a gun, overnight, liberty and democracy could be conjured up.
My first rule - the golden rule - ensures that over the economic cycle the Government will borrow only to invest, and that current spending will be met from taxation.
A woman said to me, 'You're better than your successor.' She then said she's lived under 10 prime ministers, and each was worse than the last. That put me in my place.
Why is playing football in Europe considered the pinnacle of our game, yet in other spheres of life, that same phrase - 'being in Europe' - is dismissed with suspicion?
I don't believe that any prime minister would send our troops into conflict without the assurance from the military that they had the equipment necessary for the operation.
Climate change is a consequence of the build up of greenhouse gases over the past 200 years in the atmosphere, and virtually all these emissions came from the rich countries.
I hate prejudice, discrimination, and snobbishness of any kind - it always reflects on the person judging and not the person being judged. Everyone should be treated equally.
Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management
I admired and valued Robin as a colleague and friend and as one of the greatest parliamentarians of our time. His wife Gaynor and his two sons are in our thoughts and prayers.
Almost certainly, my ancestors had travelled by sea from Sweden to England in search of prosperity, and the evidence suggests they left Sweden around the ninth or 10th centuries.
I don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support.
No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.
Every country is going to have to face up to globalisation, but Scotland has got a unique capacity because of its history as part of a multinational state to help us deal with that problem.
The NHS cannot be privatised if that's not the will of the Scottish people, and the Scottish health service will have the funding that's necessary if that's also the will of the Scottish people.
Good strong banks are essential for every family and for every business in the country and extraordinary times call for the bold and far-reaching solutions that the Treasury has announced today.
What has become clear is that Britain cannot trust the Conservatives to run the economy. Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.
You cannot have Rwanda again because information would come out far more quickly about what is actually going on, and the public opinion would grow to the point where action would need to be taken.