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" The reason why I'm in Parliament is not really to see my colleagues win power; it is to see us at last in a position where we can give it up. "

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" I want people to be the authors of their own life story. "

" Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions. "

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

" Too many people go to university. "

" When we vote to leave, I think a majority of people in Scotland will also vote to leave as well. "

" 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. "

" It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn through play, master social skills and prepare for formal schooling. "

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

" I absolutely haven't set out to burnish a reputation as a macho figure by picking fights. "

" I put my country and my principles first. "

" One of the reasons why Australia and Canada have support for migration is because they control the numbers. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't want to have anyone else as Prime Minister other than David Cameron, and if people spend their time thinking about some of this stuff, then they are getting in the way of two things: one, a fair, open, fact-based referendum debate; and two, the Conservative government continuing afterwards in a stable and secure fashion. "

" I believed and hoped that we would be able to secure a deal with Europe which would enable us to amend free movement. "

" 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?' "

" What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads. "

" I am on the side of the people. "

" I am in favour of migration; I simply want to control the numbers. "

" I have a brother-in-law who lives in Spain. "

" In England, more than in any comparable country, those who are born poor are more likely to stay poor, and those who inherit privilege are more likely to pass on privilege. For those of us who believe in social justice, this stratification and segregation are morally indefensible. "

" 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. "

" I sometimes think that the In campaign appears to be operating to a script written by George R.R. Martin and Stephen King - Brexit would mean a combination of 'A Feast for Crows' and 'Misery.' "

" 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 will do exactly as the Prime Minister asks me. "

" Life would have been easier for me if I had taken the path of least resistance. "

" 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. "

" Ed Balls keeps saying that we are committed to scrapping the EMA. I have never said this. We won't. "

" There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English. "