We shall seek debate without division or rancour.
— Johann Lamont
The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.
Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.
Our task is a great one, not just because of how far we have fallen. Our task is a great one because of the challenges facing the people we seek to serve.
My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.
I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.
We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.
Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.
I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.
The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.
Maybe I was just born to argue with men.
Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.
I'm pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.
My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.
While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.
My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the best for my family. It is not a contest between the two.
What I will say will not always please you, but what I say will always be honest and true and how I genuinely see it.
