I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don't think it solved anything. It only made the situation worse for everyone involved.

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

Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.

On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Men seem to think that page 3 girls are only interested in money. Money doesn't impress me at all. Not in the slightest.

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.