Quotes from Marjorie Scardino

The politics of Europe is unimaginative and bureaucratic.

It takes a long time to build democracy, to build freedom.

I think the business community is smart enough to realise that just having a trade union is not enough. They are smart enough to know they need to be part of a union that has political and financial power.

At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the Financial Times.

I think that the best companies are companies that have a real purpose.