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

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.

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.

Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management

Not everyone can see that everything has some beauty.

Bad divorce?" Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip.“No, the divorce was great, ” I said. “It was the marriage that sucked.

Atheists tend to read only each other’s books and not the work of the religious thinkers they are supposedly refuting.

We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.

Self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated.

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.

With time, people forget to say, "Darling I love you." just that word.

Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.

I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.