"If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong."

"The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes."

"There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing."

"It is our goal to provide full public access to as many files as we possibly can."

"We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards."

"We really shouldn't be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices."

"We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party."