When I was growing up, I was lucky to benefit from a first class education.

My pledge to you is that the SNP will put women and gender equality right at the heart of the Westminster agenda.

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

I'm manifestly not the same as Alex Salmond. I'm a different gender, for example... I'm being flippant, but maybe this is a partly gender-driven difference: I'm very keen that we find a way of reaching out across party divides to find things we agree on, as well as the things we disagree on.

I was in Australia for many years. And the system there is a two-party system and the government changes from time to time.

The hope of a nation depends on a president that will follow through even in the most unfavorable of political climates.

The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.

Vetting and verifying information is one thing. Having our government sending out conflicting messages to the American people when conflict can be avoided is another.