Damian Green

The NHS needs the care system to work if it is to fulfil its own role.

From online local care portals to greater use of personal budgets we need wholesale change if we are to move the social care system to a level that preserves the dignity and comfort of those who depend on it.

No British Prime Minister should be treated with barely concealed disrespect by our allies.

The best slogan Conservatives have always used is 'One Nation.' You cannot have One Nation if British people who happen to have a particular religious belief or ethnic background are excluded. So no true Conservative can be a racist or religious bigot.

It is unBritish to start telling women what they can and can't wear. It would immediately create a group who want to be martyrs, and this would turn into the most colossal waste of police time.

Funding care in the same way we fund pensions is the right approach for the Government to take, and the fairest way to guarantee dignity for all in old age.

It is not the job of government to collect and store vast amounts of biographical and biometric data belonging to innocent people.

Of course mobile phones are always kept out of the room during Cabinet meetings, for security reasons. But to keep a politician from his or her mobile for a whole day is a use of power which almost amounts to torture.

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

A one-size-fits-all approach just doesn't work when it comes to helping people back to work.

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.

One of Enoch Powell's wiser remarks was that politicians complaining about the press were like sailors complaining about the sea. It is not the job of newspapers to win elections; it is the job of political parties.

London is undoubtedly one of the most exciting places in the world in which to work, attracting hundreds of thousands of people of all abilities and backgrounds each year seeking to make a name for themselves.

The struggle to modernise the Labour party, which started under Neil Kinnock in the 80s, took more than a decade - and they were swimming in a largely friendly sea.

Just as strong Labour supporters in the 1980s could not come to terms with the fact that most people did not hate Mrs Thatcher, so many of my closest Conservative friends find it difficult to believe that the messages and style of the past don't work any longer.

There is a basic state pension to which we are all entitled at a certain age, but on top of that we encourage everyone who can to save privately so that they have a more comfortable old age.

I have a unique ambition for a politician. I am the first aspiring education secretary to want less power not more.

The Conservative party, like many others, is constantly grappling with issues of community cohesion and how you can express your core values without becoming authoritarian and over-prescriptive.

I have many times made public information that the government wanted to keep secret, information that the public has a right to know.

Politicians making grand warnings in Churchillian-sounding phrases about becoming a 'vassal state' don't help pay the bills.