Quotes from Nicky Morgan

We are trying to make sure the online world is as safe and secure as the offline world.

Inevitably, the role of being a backbench Member of Parliament is completely different from being a minister bound by collective responsibility.

When I go in and talk to students about being a Member of Parliament, I say to them it took me 21 years from joining the Conservative Party as a 16-year-old to being elected as a Member of Parliament for the first time in Loughborough. It's a long journey, but the rewards when you get there, the feeling of accomplishment is huge.

Visiting schools, I'm lucky enough to see the impact that education has in transforming young lives.

I voted Remain, but I also believe in democracy. The 2016 referendum was the largest popular vote in the U.K.'s history and it cannot be ignored.

We make no apology for being bold and ambitious.

I've been very clear that childcare is a parents' issue. Men need to be confident that they can have a conversation with their bosses about the need to work flexibly, as I hope women are.

I'm not sure a pain-free Brexit is possible.

Brexit is so extraordinary in so many ways.

Being an MP is a challenging job - it's strange hours, and if you have another half, they have to be supportive. But it can be very flexible, and of course you get recesses, which I find work very well around school term times.

Let's be honest, the fact that Michael [Gove] announced very late in the process this morning that he was going to put his name forward, showed how much he had wrestled with this.

I think this is what we must not lose sight of, present a confident, positive and optimistic platform for our country's future in which this Party appeals to the centre ground of British politics.

There have been plenty of little changes down the years but what's never been changed is that the fact that marriage is between a man and a woman.

We need to encourage girls, while they are at school, to know that no career path is closed to them, and to take pride in having ambitions.

Watching talented colleagues walking away from the Cabinet table is never easy.

At the end of the day local authorities are responsible for economic growth in their area. They don't buy and sell businesses, they don't build businesses, what they do is work to attract businesses their area, through a combination of things.

I guess I am a more, I don't know, consumer-facing politician.

We have got schools that can absolutely stand on their own two feet, and I think that's what we should be doing as Conservatives.

When evaluating the suitability of a woman for a role, or using certain language in job advertisements, biases can creep in.

We will expect every pupil by the age of 11 to know their times tables off by heart, to perform long division and complex multiplication and to be able to read a novel. They should be able to write a short story with accurate punctuation, spelling and grammar.

We've been clear that schools shouldn't just tackle direct homophobic bullying, but also the use of phrases like 'that's so gay' to mean rubbish or bad, because we know the devastating impact they can have on young people's self-esteem.

I firmly believe that my dual roles as secretary of state for education and minister for women and equalities are closely linked. Never is this more apparent than when tackling the gender pay gap.

It would be wrong to say immigration holds results back or affects overall qualifications ultimately. But at the start of primary school, especially, it means that teachers have to tailor their lessons, to spend longer with pupils who have English as a second language.

We should make it very clear to Saudi Aramco and others who want to list in London that they are very welcome but we aren't going to overly amend the rules just for one particular listing.