My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. – Nora Ephron
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. – Michael Gove
Judy, we think that since the 11th of September, 2001, weve faced a similar heightened threat level. And weve been enhancing both the exchange of intelligence and security information and the assessment of that information, because thats the crucial element. – David Blunkett