The job of the Scottish Labour Party is to represent working people and represent Scotland.

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.

The Labour Party in 2011 was in an exceptionally bad place. We'd been hammered in an election. We didn't see the scale of it coming.

I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.

The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

It's said that once you win an election, that you win political capital, and that's kind of my intent, is to spend political capital on the Gulf Coast, among other areas.