When you have a long menu of pages and pages, it's hard to choose, but if you have a small menu then your choice is simple to make, even if difficult to take.

Just to come out and have this kind of an audience out there for you, it just lifts you when you get out there. Just the feeling of the crowd, the pride that you want to do your best out there.

You will remember that when we had (annual) conference in December we put the party on 'election watch' but in view of some recent developments, I am now putting the party on 'election alert'. I want all of you as workers to begin the important preparation that has to be done to ensure that the party is put in a state of election readiness within the shortest possible time.

I consider it to be a disgrace that we are back here today, and all we are looking at is ashes.

Simpson Miller has been, indeed, like all the other contenders are - persons that are a part of the Cabinet which over the past many years has pursued a set of policies which have not produced the set of results that the country wants.

I think that there is a great level of disaffection in the country in terms of the performance of the government and we are going to be challenging them on that over the next few months.