Our most important public service will always be the NHS. And I want to say something clear and unambiguous about the future of the health service.

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.

A town with many men who are less educated and as such ignorant of the real solution to the woes of their society has the same problem as a town with many intellectuals and yet with many problems

Sixty years is too brief a compass for man’s imagination. The incomplete joys of this world can never satisfy his heart.

I love her more than just a little. I think it's because we're both somewhat broken, in our own odd ways. More importantly, we're both aware of it.

We should have never let ISIS happen in the first place. And right now, they're in 32 countries.

Mirrors at the gym only serve to remind me that I'm less of a man than I'd like to be.

He that is not in the warres is not out of danger.

In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.

I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

Better to have small faith in a great God than to have great faith in a small god.