In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people.

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.

Thinking out of the box means you are in a continuous learning mode.

No political body is sacred, sustainable or under protection, which allows the exploitation of its weakest citizens.

I want to show off how beautiful my subjects are, whether its a cheetah or a live girl or two of them together.

We obviously feel destiny and purpose and do what we do, but within that are ways to help others and to inspire others and to support and encourage people.

A true saving knowledge of sin is to be had only in the Lord Christ: in him may we see the desert of our iniquities.

It's tough enough to have a relationship, and it hurts enough to have it not work.

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

Mini dresses that have an over skirt of tulle makes it traditional and modern at the same time.

The poor aren't defeated. We're domesticated.

I do go to football sometimes but I don't know the offside rule or free-kicks - or side kicks - or whatever they're called.