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.

[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.

The vision of personalised public services - meeting the individual needs of all our citizens - requires continuing reform in the way services are delivered

You need in the long run for stability, for economic growth, for jobs, as well as for financial stability, global economic institutions that make sure that growth to be sustained has to be shared, and are built on the principle that the prosperity of this world is indivisible.

...the world needs to face up to the challenge of climate change, and to do so now. It is clear that climate change poses an urgent challenge, not only a challenge that threatens the environment but also international peace and security, prosperity and development. And as the Stern report showed, the economic effects of climate change on this scale cannot be ignored, but the costs can be limited if we act early

I will listen and I will learn. I will strive to meet people's aspirations. I want to lead a government humble enough to know its place - where I will always strive to be - and that is on people's side.

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.