Damian Green Quotes

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Damian Green

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 17, 1956

An alienated population seldom provides the tip-offs the police need to catch criminals, or the evidence in court needed to convict. This has been a problem at times within some minority communities who regard the police as hostile. How much more difficult life would be for the police if this attitude became widespread.

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Having ground my teeth at educational theorists who say Shakespeare is irrelevant to inner-city children, I was overjoyed to be there when a class of 12-year-olds who had studied Twelfth Night were asked if they wanted to see it performed. A forest of hands shot up.

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Good teachers can make great authors accessible to new generations anywhere.

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Given the state of English schools in the 1970s, a national curriculum, Ofsted, regular testing, publication of performance results, have all helped to raise standards by shining a light into the walled garden and letting parents know what is going on inside the school walls.

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You cannot have excellent schools unless you have well-motivated heads and teachers.

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The central government role is to ensure that what goes on in the school is revealed to parents and potential parents. It is not, absolutely not, to run the school.

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If Tony Blair really wants to see a higher education sector that is thriving and growing then he should be releasing universities from the shackles of government control.

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We want to see our politicians working together.

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There are big issues facing this country. Not just Brexit... but counter-terrorism, improving the world of work, the issue of social care.

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People want politicians to address the big issues and if they can do it across the divide of parties then so be it.

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I think there should be a major cut in the power of government to interfere in the day-to-day running of our schools. I want this because our guiding principle is that schools run schools best.

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To succeed, the Conservative Party must be at home in modern Britain.

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If we don't like modern Britain, then it is very unlikely that modern Britain will like us.

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No one should be written off because of their background. This is a moral proposition but it is also an important political lesson.

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My grandfather was a Welsh dock-worker who voted Tory. Some of my friends are investment bankers who have voted Labour. It takes all sorts, and the best Tory values appeal to all sorts.

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Very often the best chance for a child in an inner city to acquire an excellent start in education is the church school.

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Rioting is always an expression of rage at the hopelessness of the rioters' condition. People who have been educated well enough to feel that they have a good future in the society in which they live will not riot.

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One of the great advances of the modern world is that people live longer, and are healthy and active for more of their lives. This is a matter for celebration, not least because it allows older people to play a full and varied role in society.

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The jury system is one of the few ideas from the 13th century which still flourishes in the 21st century.

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Don't make generalisations about any group of children. For years I have felt angry with those who argue that Shakespeare and the rest of the classic canon are irrelevant to inner-city kids.

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