Quote by Lucy Powell
The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short

The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education. – Lucy Powell

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As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their ideology of free markets and small government needs challenging. That has to be part of our job. – Lucy Powell

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Government
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I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Milibands leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up. – Lucy Powell

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Leadership
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For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions – the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in. – Lucy Powell

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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. – Gregory Bateson

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When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. Shell invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a womans role in the economy benefits society at large. – Andrea Jung

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If the Liberals law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will. – Stockwell Day

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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. – Marcus Aurelius

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