Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.

Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal.

To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.

I take full responsibility for what happened. That's why the person who was responsible went immediately.

My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.

my heart, sometimes singing in the afternoon, the most haunting song of solitude

Life is always sweet on the positive lane, but you must give it a try and a try and a try for however long it would take to find out.

Here's the thing: I think the media underestimates the intelligence of the moviegoer. We need to be fulfilled. People want to sit down and think, and I try to make people think.

It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

The Spy Act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

Universe is blind; it cannot see us; we must find a way to show ourselves to it and science is the way to open the eyes of the universe!

The cuss am I? Are you cussing with me?