The vision of personalised public services - meeting the individual needs of all our citizens - requires continuing reform in the way services are delivered

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.

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled

I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.

One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.

Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride.

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

You can crush the flowers, but you can't stop the spring.

I wanted to design a chair which looked like a shrub pruned to look like a chair.

The 1916 uprising was kind of the most important rebellion in Ireland's fight for independence that had been going on for 700 years. So it's a very important moment in history for us.