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" 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? "

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" 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. "

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" I wanted to put the national interest before my personal interests. "

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

" My sister and I know our lives could have been different - radically, unthinkably, irretrievably different - if we had not been adopted. We might have found ourselves in homes without love, stability or kindness. We might have found ourselves in care for much longer, without the secure attachment that being cradled in a mother's arms brings. "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

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

" There aren't many contemporary Christian leaders who are both energetic in their condemnation of the crimes of communism and robust in their analysis of the evil of Islamism, but Justin Welby stands out. "

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

" Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted. "

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" At the moment, I'm afraid that the discipline system doesn't give teachers the support that they need. One thing that I've been struck by is that the number of violent assaults on teachers increased last year. We need to be clear that teachers have the power they need in order to impose discipline. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" No-one is forced to stand for Parliament; no-one is compelled to become a minister. If you take on those roles, which are great privileges, you also take on big responsibilities. "

" Scottish nationalism has grown since we entered the European Union. "

" I'm one of many who have seen their parents and their friends lose their jobs, lose their income, lose their livelihood because of the European Union. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 common fisheries policy essentially gave other European Union nations unfettered access to our fish stocks and - I would hope - that if we leave the European Union, we can once more see the ports of Peterborough and Fraserhead and Grimsby flourishing, because we will take back control of our territorial waters. "

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

" I think it's time that we said to people who are incapable of acknowledging that they've ever got anything wrong: 'I'm sorry, you've had your day.' Unelected, unaccountable elites, I'm afraid it's time to say, 'You're fired. We are going to take back control.' "

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

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

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

" Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve. "

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

" You know you don't see hospital consultants going on strike, and I don't believe that teachers and head teachers should. It's within their rights, it's a civil right, but I think it is wrong in terms of the reputation of the profession. "

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

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