Personal responsibility is a difficult thing to ask for in a nation which has attempted to find a societal "root cause" for all things.

From now on, the responsibility for what happens in the Gaza Strip lies in the hands of the Palestinian Authority .

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision

We in Scotland need fiscal responsibility. Quite simply, we need to be responsible for what we raise in tax and what we spend in tax.