For the absolute avoidance of doubt, my leadership will be about unity, drawing on all the talents - with women representing half of the shadow cabinet - and working together at every level of the party.

If the leadership can't win a debate, then we should show true leadership and implement the democratic will of our party.

I am just an ordinary person trying to do an ordinary job.

You can't sustain a high level of intense activity with thousands of people forever. It has to be for a specific objective.

In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on.

War implies a lack of comprehension of mutual national interests; it means the undermining and even the end of culture.

The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the non-slaveholding States - is destroyed is a day that will not be far removed from political revolution, anarchy, civil war, and widespread disaster.

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.