Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.

The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.

Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across the country would sympathise with the idea that there are lots of people with talent and ability all across this country who want to make more of themselves and part of the responsibility of government is to make that happen.

Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.

Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.

I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.

I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.

We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.

A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell.

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

This kid's excited because he's with Bad Company and I'm excited because I'm with Chuck Berrys' son.

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

I was told my son was killed in the war on terror. He was killed by George Bush's war of terror on the world.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.

After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood.

Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.

Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up.

'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.

Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France.

And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.

My character Esteban is a guy who really didn't think he was gonna be there at this point in his life. He's in his early 30s. He's got a son. He's raising his son as a single father.

I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.

When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'

You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.

I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.

If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.

My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.

Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.