I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually.

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.

He was a small, chubby little man with a perpetual air of sadness about him, making him look like a baby that has dropped its rattle.

That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

Yes, the Green Party is committed to a healthy environment. But the Green Party is not solely committed to just that.

Imperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property.

Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.

After a week of the contained chaos that is my job, I need some solitary running time. On Sundays, I can unwind and reconnect with the natural world.

It’s all a bit of a gamble, mate. That’s all I can promise you. And we never get to see what that other life would have looked like if we don’t take chances.

Builders need to take their preeminent position back from the traders for the economy of the future to flourish.

I'm not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that's become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.