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

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" My judgment about what is right for this country will always guide me. "

" When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted. "

" I prefer to take the view of businesspeople who are actually generating jobs and creating wealth. "

" 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. "

" I know myself, from my own background, the E.U. depresses employment and destroys jobs. My father had a business destroyed by the common fisheries policy. "

" You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom? "

" I don't think I'm a revolutionary, and I'd certainly be an unlikely one. "

" The people who are backing the Remain campaign are people who have done very well, thank you, out of the European Union. "

" I recognise that fishing is perhaps not the most high-employment industry in this country, but it's a symbol of what we lost when we entered the E.U.: control over national resources that, if we retained them, we could have husbanded in our interest and, indeed, in the interest of others. "

" 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 can't foretell the future, but I don't believe that the act of leaving the European Union would make our economic position worse; I think it would make it better. "

" The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads. "

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

" I think overall our national security is strengthened if we are able to make the decisions that we need and the alliances that we believe in outside the current structures of the European Union. "

" 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. "

" The economic basis on which Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish nationalists made the case for separation was based on an oil price much higher than it is at the moment, so there will be no case for it. "

" The next leader of this country needs to be someone who believes heart and soul that Britain should be outside the European Union. "

" Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children. "

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

" I am on the side of the people. "

" I don't think there will be a recession as a result of a vote to leave. "

" 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. "

" Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture. "

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

" I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools. "

" Anyone who's working in manufacturing here should know they will have increased opportunities if we leave the European Union. "

" I'm not interested in defending the position of those who already have money, power and privilege. "

" Were I ever alone in the dock, I would not want to be arraigned before our flawed tribunals, knowing my freedom could be forfeit as a result of political pressures. I would prefer a fair trial, under the shadow of the noose. "

" 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 put my country and my principles first. "