So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.

We said in our 21st Century Party paper there are 61 mosaic groups, which the market research people use as different socio-economic categories and half of our members come from just five of those groups and that is very narrow - too narrow.

If we want to change what people think of us, then we have got to change.

They don't think we're in touch with modern Britain, or understand modern Britain or like modern Britain.

If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us.

Our share of the vote overall rose by less than 1 per cent - yes, that's right: less than 1 per cent.

We should be the natural home for younger voters. But today we're not. Because too often we sound like people who just don't like contemporary Britain.

The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.

I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.

But if we can work with people in other parties to get the right answer for the country we'll do that.

Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.

We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't.

For the most part our grassroots members are serious, nice, tolerant people.

So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.

Our members are very much maligned. Obviously the average age is 60 something, but they all have children and grandchildren, they understand what we need to do, they want to win.

We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Because too often we've sounded like people who wish they hadn't come here at all.

It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.

Our party believes in diversity, not uniformity.

The party at its best has always been a modern party.

Our party's committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime.

We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.

It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain.

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.

You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.

We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them.

The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

I don't mean that if you're a Christian, walking close to God, you will immediately gain celebrity. you may fail as an artist, because you may not have what the public want at that time, and you have to be prepared for that.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.