Shirley Williams Quotes (13 Quotes)

We really shouldn't be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.

We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party.

I think it is really terrifying that we are narrowing down to a mechanistic assessment of children by how many pass exams... if standards meant improving right across the board, character, originality, interests, then I wouldn't mind so much. But it doesn't. It always boils down to the same thing, how will we pass exams.

The Government cannot move on until it admits to this 'the greatest diplomatic blunder since Suez' and learns lessons from it. One of those lessons is how weak Britain's influence has been over the American administration.

We just take everything one day at a time. We're happy to have them here. A lot of people don't have any family or friends at all.

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

The government's response that it cannot control electricity and fuel prices as the Jamaica Public Service is privately owned and that the government has no control over oil prices is as irresponsible as it is delinquent.

I was pushing the baccalaureate back in the days when I was education secretary. It always takes everybody forever in education. We were saying that A-levels were too narrow back then as well.

It is our goal to provide full public access to as many files as we possibly can.

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.