"Taxation should rise progressively with income...what is needed is a programme of reform that ends the current situation where the top 10% own 80% of our wealth and 30% of income, even after tax. As Tawney remarked, "what some people call the problem of poverty, others call the problem of riches." - Gordon Brown, Scotland: The Real Divide 1983.
"It may be of comfort to him (Gerald Kaufman) to know that I had the word "socialist" written on my election address and it did not do me any harm." - Chris Mullin MP.
"This is a privatisation that will be thrown out at the ballot box" - Andrew Smith MP, earlier this year on the Tories' plan to privatise London underground.
"Our election success rested on a new partnership between Party and leadership. That partnership must be maintained and built on now we are in government" - the latest New Labour New Britain.
"Allegations of bribery and poll-rigging aimed at Mohammed Sarwar, the Labour MP for Glasgow Govan have, if anything, enhanced the stature of the Scottish politician in the community nationwide" - British Muslim magazine Q-News.
"Should it not be the case that the opposition should oppose and not decompose" - Harry Barnes MP.