"Cowdenbeath Football Club have always been at the centre of Cowdenbeath - literally and in every aspect of community life."

"Foreign policy can no longer be the province of just a few elites."

"For centuries, individuals have been learning how to live with their next-door neighbours."

"It will not be a surprise to you to learn I'm more interested in the future of the Arctic Circle than the future of the Arctic Monkeys."

"I don't believe that any prime minister would send our troops into conflict without the assurance from the military that they had the equipment necessary for the operation."

"Those who write off our European heritage are, at least in part, writing off their own heritage."

"Almost certainly, my ancestors had travelled by sea from Sweden to England in search of prosperity, and the evidence suggests they left Sweden around the ninth or 10th centuries."

"I think it's important that people know who you are and... can ask any questions they like about you."

"Meet the challenges of the time."

"Making the desirable possible requires us to make the desirable popular, electable, credible, and something that people want to hold on to."

"Our ability to connect as a nation with other nations around the world is enhanced dramatically by the Internet."

"I'm all for greater co-operation between Europe and America because I think that sometimes we've missed out on the benefits that transatlantic trade could give both continents, and I've been pressing this since 1997."

"To make Europe more effective is a worthwhile objective. To make Europe less important in your calculations is a big mistake."

"Famously, I'm somewhat impatient."

"There's no point dwelling on the worst things people have said - there's a job to do."

"People believe in the power of education to change lives."

"You can drink too much tea."

"When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do."

"When things are difficult, you have to be sure of who you are and what you want to achieve."

"I've got a job to do."

"Every country is going to have to face up to globalisation, but Scotland has got a unique capacity because of its history as part of a multinational state to help us deal with that problem."

"A woman said to me, 'You're better than your successor.' She then said she's lived under 10 prime ministers, and each was worse than the last. That put me in my place."

"You can't just vote for yourself. All the time, you're thinking what sort of country, what world, what future?"

"We've managed to find a way of making decisions that prevents conflict arising - there has been no war between European members at any point in the last 70 years."

"What is happened in the years since the Second World War is not a temporary truce. It is not simply a ceasefire. Instead of battling with weapons and armaments, people battle only with arguments and ideas."

"Let us think of ourselves not as 'yes' and 'no' Scots but simply as Scots, and let us be a nation, united again."

"I believe that our vote is both a public duty and a sacred trust."

"It is not a mistake to want power."

"Collective European Union action could mean no hiding places for evaders, no safe haven for tax avoiders, and no treasure islands for money launderers."

"The patriotism in Britain comes from us being a leader. On jobs, on tax havens, on workers' rights, on the environment. We can be leading Europe... and it will be to the benefit of every British citizen."

"Nigel Farage wanted to privatise the health service. Nigel Farage does not believe in the values we believe in for our public services."

"I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers - we should look at what young people are saying to us."

"I am a father with young kids, and you want to know the jobs in the future are going to be there."

"Britain must lead in Europe to intensify the fight against global terrorism and make our country safer."

"Why is playing football in Europe considered the pinnacle of our game, yet in other spheres of life, that same phrase - 'being in Europe' - is dismissed with suspicion?"

"Our common realm is not and cannot be stripped of values - I absolutely reject the idea that religion should somehow be tolerated but not encouraged in public life."

"Markets need morals."

"When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS."

"I love Scotland; I love the NHS. I was born into the NHS; I grew up in the NHS. My family grew up in the NHS."

"I never subscribed to what you might call the neo-Conservative position that somehow, at the barrel of a gun, overnight, liberty and democracy could be conjured up."

"The Britain I know is the Britain of Jo Cox. The Britain where people are tolerant and not prejudiced, and where people hate hate."

"The extraordinary summer heatwave of 2003 in Europe resulted in over 35,000 extra deaths."

"In every era, there are only one or two moments when nations come "together "and reach agreements that make history, because they change the course of history."

"The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction."

"Higher energy prices are requiring industry and commerce to examine the costs and efficiency of energy use."

"Other prime ministers leave office and stay in London. I have come back with my whole family to Fife. This is where they are being brought up. It is better for them and better for me. It's great to see more of the kids."

"I want to do something for Kirkcaldy and Fife. I am a full-time MP, not a businessman."

"I am not going to the House of Lords. Never. That's not who I am. That's not where I am."

"The way forward is for governments to consciously pursue monetary and fiscal stability through setting clear objectives, establishing proper rules, and requiring openness and transparency - the new rules of the game."

"Stability is necessary for our future economic success."