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" In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying. "

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" The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter. "

" I absolutely think that David Cameron should stay, whatever the result of the referendum, and I hope that he will stay for the full second term which he was elected to serve. "

" I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created. "

" One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year. "

" At the beginning of the 20th century, the Conservative cabinet was called Hotel Cecil. "

" The majority people in this country are suffering because of our membership of the E.U. "

" I think the people in this country have had enough of experts with organisations from acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong. "

" We have, in the E.U., a market rigged in favour of the rich and stacked against the poor, and I think that's wrong. "

" I found reading Alan Bennett striking because you have this sudden flash of recognition when you read about a boy who has intellectual interests utterly different from his parents. "

" Traditional Anglicans - whether in Nigeria or Nottingham - have been wary, at best, of the acceptance and welcome given to gay men and women and their sexual choices by secular society. "

" Barack Obama would never accept a court in Mexico decreeing what the law in the United States would be. "

" If events had taken a different course, I could have been one of those children going to a school without the sorts of opportunities that I've subsequently had. "

" Don't belittle the hurt that has been caused by the job-destroying machine that is the European Union. "

" I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood, ready to pick me up when I fell and support me when I stumbled. "

" Democratic self-government has manifestly brought benefits to India, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, South Africa, South Korea, and scores of nations all making their way in the world. "

" One thing is undeniable. If we are going to continue to have support for migration, we need to be able to control the numbers. "

" Optimists - people who believe in Britain, who believe in democracy - they're the people I believe who will vote for us to leave and take back control. "

" 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. "

" My parents adopted me, and then, by the age of four or five, I was asking all sorts of questions, and they found themselves with a son who was interested in the sorts of things that they valued but weren't natural to them. "

" There are great things that Britain can do in the future as a progressive beacon. By voting Leave, we have that opportunity. "

" There are economic risks if we leave, economic risks if we remain. "

" The people I admire most are those doing outstanding things for the poorest children, such as Michael Wilshaw at Mossbourne academy, Dan Moynihan and all those at the Harris academies, and those at chains such as Ark and the Haberdashers, who are driving up standards in the poorest areas. "

" There wasn't a Scottish nationalist MP elected at any general election when we were outside the E.U. "

" Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents. "

" The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility. "

" You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?' "

" The ability to choose who governs us, and the freedom to change laws we do not like, were secured for us in the past by radicals and liberals who took power from unaccountable elites and placed it in the hands of the people. "

" I think the principal purpose of education is to allow each of us, when we become adults, to shape our own future. "

" Making promises and then saddling yourself with a political system and a political union that means that you cannot deliver those promises, I fear, doesn't contribute to an atmosphere of trust and confidence in politics. "

" I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more. "