Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services.

More than 50% of significant new regulations that impact on business in the UK now emanate from the EU.

Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

You are only Half Happy unless you love them both equally: Friday & Monday!

In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.

Some goals you just never really think about trying to achieve because they just seem so out of reach.

For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.

When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe, sometimes laugh, sometimes cry, just like a person, a little person.

Every team has a hard man. We has Nobby Stiles, Chelsea had Chopper, Arsenal had Peter Storey, Liverpool had Tommy Smith. Leeds had eleven of them

The cause of Christ does not need less working, but it does need among the workers, more praying.

In the words of the old song, it's a long time from May to December but, you know, it's an equally long time from December to May.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.