"I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic."

"Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products."

"My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything."

"I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic."

"Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough."

"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."

"A resilient spirit knows that the true master is an eternal student."

"Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again."