We can have enhanced devolution - greater powers in Scotland - but within the strength, security and stability of the United Kingdom, and I think that's what most Scots want.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An independent Scotland - like all countries - will face challenges, and we will have our ups and downs. But the decisions about how we use our wealth will be ours.
I firmly believe that Scotland's place is in the U.K., and I do not believe in powers for power's sake.
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.
Scotland has a great deal to offer the world in terms of our approach to key economic and social issues.
If the Scottish people decide to opt for independence, it would not be a good idea for Scotland to maintain a very rigid link to the pound.
I want to change Scotland, but the only way we can change Scotland is by changing the Scottish Labour Party.
If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.
An independent Scotland could be far more internationalist and would benefit a great deal from links to both Scandinavia and states in other continents.
I desperately want Scotland to be an independent country. I cannot, though, sit here and tell you definitively that it will happen, and that it will happen on this timescale, because I have to respect the opinion of the people of Scotland.
Scotland is not a region of the U.K.; Scotland is a nation, and if we cannot protect our interests within a U.K. that is going to be changing fundamentally, then that right of Scotland to consider the options of independence has to be there.