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.

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

Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management

The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.

Without complicit submission, authority holds no power.

If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land wanting to fly in the air.

The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

It is better to give children a rule to break than to give them no rules at all.

I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.