If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.

Maybe I was just born to argue with men.

My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.

My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the best for my family. It is not a contest between the two.

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.