Turkey will "inevitably" join the EU in our lifetime unless we vote to leave.

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.

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

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.

It is a family; it's a slightly dysfunctional family, but it's also very close and warm and loving family.

The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.

Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people.

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.

When dealing with the internet, I knew that people would have their own opinions, and I went into it with that in mind.

Beggars market their incapacity.

The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes.