I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.
With 24-hour news... the story moves on with the media.
For any new leader of any party at any given time it takes time if you are not in government to establish yourself.
The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.
I don't want a headline saying 'Kennedy suggests this or implies that.'
There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.
There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces.
Whatever the eventual judgment, the political implications of Hutton are already clear. A devastating indictment of Labour in power - and of our political system itself.
If you were to describe me as teetotal, on behalf of my constituency I'd have to sue; that would lose me every vote in the Highlands.
It is my determination that we, as a party, continue to make that fundamental restatement of liberal values in the politics of our country.
To involve young people and make sure that the system is more relevant to them in Scotland, we have a clear obligation to implement a policy of home rule.
Liberal Democracy is all about extending choice. Give people the option to decide their retirement age, and you immediately extend their freedom in a very significant way.
Democracy demands trust. It demands that sense of mutual understanding. And - it's a two way street. You've got to give - as much as you take.
With every day that passes, David Blunkett becomes more insensitive in his language and more intemperate in his actions.
Of all the principles which constitute Liberal Democracy, internationalism is the clearest, the most distinctive, and the one with the longest history.
Some ministers are fond of talking about a return to Victorian values. We must realise that those Victorian values are being expressed by some of the younger people in this society in shameful and disturbing disregard for other members of their generation who are not as fortunate as they are in having a job.
Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.
'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the creation and imposition of a European superstate, one centralised in Brussels.
Westminster is a jungle - and the hunter can always smell fear on its prey.
Good political leadership for me involves getting the big decisions right - however difficult, however controversial, however potentially divisive - and then being able to take people with you.
