I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.

The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.

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.

I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.

Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.