Quotes of the Week

19th August 2011, 1:00am

“Teamwork, discipline, duty, decency: these might sound old-fashioned words but they are part of the solution to this very modern problem of alienated, angry young people.”

Prime Minister David Cameron, on why government needs to address a “broken Britain”

“My teachers wanted me to work in pencil with a soft, delicate line. But I have no use for delicacy.”

Alasdair Gray, Scottish writer, on why he uses ballpoint pens.