I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals.

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek

Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

I have come, reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris [Johnson] cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead.

I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.

I will take all the steps necessary to give the NHS at least another £100million per week by 2020.

I believed we needed someone who would be able to build a team, lead and unite. I hoped that person would be Boris Johnson.

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization.

What I believe in, in terms of getting our economy going again, is that we need to invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow.

Anxiety is the gap between now and later.

I think if more people would understand how simple and what really feminism is, I would imagine that most men I know are feminists without verbalising or saying so.

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.

The level of our obedience is most often determined by the behavior standard of other Christians around us.

As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.

Water is the life-giver and the death-bringer.

We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.