While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.

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.

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

It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.

The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?

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.