28 Quotes by Shirley Williams

The doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty has become the doctrine of the executive in Parliament....

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.

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

It feels like you've lost someone in your family real close to you, and they're never coming back.

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.

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

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.

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.