All Quotes

"“I don’t think we went too fast. I think we didn’t build people’s capacity to talk about the work. I think that was the main issue, we just didn’t talk about the work in a way that helped people understand how it was all connected”"

"“…this false narrative [on the Governor’s Schools] was fueled by a monster minority machine that emboldened and really gaslighted members of a diverse Asian community to champion these issues.”"

"“…now, bringing up this difficult history is diagnosed as a divisive concepts that White parents don’t want spoken about…but not because they don’t want their children to bear the brunt of this factual history, but because they don’t want to be reminded about it. Members of the monster minority machine would purport that teaching about this stuff would make students hate their country. I disagree. Perhaps it would teach the next generation of where we got it wrong.”"

"“Governor Youngkin, if he was truly interested in repairing Virginia’s failing schools, he can use critical race theory to interrogate the policies that were used with redlining and Jim Crow laws and all the historical antecedents that get us to failing schools.”"

"“Even though we were told not to talk about [ critical race theory] because we would lose, it was like, well, we didn’t talk about it and we still lost.”"

"” We need more people who respect and affirm diversity, equity and inclusion to run for political office at all levels. We also need people – commonsense reasonable people and elected officials and their communications partners- to speak up and not be so afraid to speak up at school board meetings, in the media, in the local towns square, at the YMCA, grocery store, and on the campaign trail. Because right now, the narrative is being controlled by a minority monster machine…a very small group of parents who have the ability and funding to be loud and apparently get to be threatening to people. And it goes unchecked. This has resulted in the normalization of hating anyone with a different ideology and even political cyberbullying of a 17-year-old.”"

"“…ok parents, member of the minority monster machine who is against critical race theory, look at this language in the Virginia code that says Black people shall not marry white people. Is it ok that we take that out? Because that’s actually ‘critical race theory’ in action.”"

"“I’ve read all of [Angela Sailor’s] works, but I’m not quite sure exactly where she stands. She is not a DEI thought-leader or practitioner. She has a lot of political experience on the conservative side but given her support of HBCUs and her stated priority of helping the Black community, I’m not quite sure of her thoughts on a lot of things. It’s a little bit confusing…I certainly wish her well, because if she does well, then Virginia does well. But to say that I’m nervous…is an understatement.”"

"“You are talking about the people who were so easily manipulated, who vote back and forth, vote against their interests, or don’t understand that addressing issues of inequity take time to demonstrate success….kind of like the townspeople in a Shakespearean play. You know, first we praise Caesar and now we want to kill him.”"

"have always been drawn to growth. I love the opportunities that growth creates, as well as the chance to have a positive impact on so many people, not just your customers, but your employees."

"Growth within business is exhilarating and rewarding, but it isn’t without its challenges."

"I’ve faced up to a lot. But I’ve never let anyone hold me back and I’ve met tough challenges head on. And I know working in government will be challenging."

"I’m proud to be joining a government which puts a modern approach at its core. Take the new Office for Investment – a scaled-up, more coherent, joint No 10-HMT-DBT investment agency."

"It really does feel like we’re in this new era of cybersecurity,"

"The arms race will absolutely continue, I really don’t think it’s very long until this [AI] innovation gets into the hands of attackers, and we will see these very highly targeted and specific attacks that humans won’t necessarily be able to spot and defend themselves from."

"It’s not going to be these futuristic Terminator-style robots out shooting each other, it’s going to be all these little pieces of code fighting in the background of our businesses. In my time here at Darktrace"

"It’s only something I’m aware of when I’m doing interviews or when I’m at an industry event and suddenly you see a sea of men staring back at you,"

"Censoring lawful speech based on its content? I'm with the First Amendment. I'm a no."

"The FCC does not have a roving mandate to police speech in the name of the “public interest.”"

"Who, in your view, should have the power to draw the line between a “lie” and “free speech”? Government officials that want to stay in political power or the people that can hold them accountable ?"

"We at the FCC are going to enforce the public interest obligation, if there’s broadcasters out there that don’t like it, they can turn their license in to the FCC. .. This is a very, very serious issue right now for Disney. We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to take action on Kimmel or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead. They have a license granted by us at the FCC, and that comes with it an obligation to operate in the public interest. .. The FCC could make a strong argument that this is sort of an intentional effort to mislead the American people about a very core fundamental fact, a very important matter. .. Disney needs to see some change here, but the individual licensed stations that are taking their content, it's time for them to step up and say this, you know, garbage to the extent that that's what comes down the pipe in the future isn't something that we think serves the needs of our local communities. But, but this sort of status quo is obviously not, not acceptable where we are."

"When you look at the conduct that has taken place by Jimmy Kimmel, um, it appears to be some of the sickest conduct possible. Uh, as you've indicated, there are, y'know, avenues here for the FCC so there are some ways in which I need to be a little bit, uh, careful: because we could be called ultimately to be a judge on some of these claims that come up. But I don't think this is an isolated incident. You go back to Representative Swalwell, he had a tweet out last week, where he was saying that, y'know, emphasizing that Charlie Kirk's killer was "a straight white male from Republican family that voted for Donald Trump." In some quarters there's a very concerted effort to try to lie to the American people.about the nature, as you indicated, one of the most significant, uh, newsworthy public interest acts that we've seen in a long time. In what appears to be an action by Jimmy Kimmel to play into that narrative that this was somehow a MAGA or Republican motivated person. If that's what happened here with his conduct, that's really really sick."

"There's actions we can take on licensed broadcasters. It's long past the time that...Comcast and Disney say 'We're not gonna run Kimmel anymore...because we licensed broadcasters are running the possibly of fines or licensed revocation from the FCC."

"Definitely the Fourth Plinth project in Trafalgar Square. I was determined to fill that empty plinth! It took five years of campaigning with my committee at the Royal Society of Arts, but we did it."

"My restaurant in the Seventies and Eighties was the place to be. I’ve cooked for most of the Royals, Elton John, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Alec Guinness… the list goes on. They all loved my food – at least, I hope they did!"

"while cooking for 300 at Vintners Hall, I mistakenly thawed beetroot puree instead of raspberry for the vanilla ice cream. I added sugar and lemon juice, used it anyway, and guess what? Nobody noticed!"

"Every school child should learn 10 basics: Shepherd’s Pie, Spag Bol, Pizza, Curry, Salad Nicoise, Omelette, Quiche, Ratatouille, Trifle, and Apple Pie. These recipes will make you a hit at uni and set you up for life!"

"Our first job was to deal with the concrete. The previous tenant farmer couldn’t make money out of his farm"

"If you’ve had a quarrel, a walk in the garden calms things down"

"Or involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill ’em."

"I wrongfully said they should get lethal injections, I apologize for that extremely callous remark."

"You are a role model whether you choose to be or not, your behaviours are copied, good or bad."

"Give yourself the space to be the person you want to be versus the person everyone else wants you to be."

"For me it’s important to know what failure looks like, after all, success is always on the other side of fear."

"I believe that the UK can sustain its position as a magnet for digital investment and for tech talent."

"My ambition is for this country to seize its position as a digital nation of significance by leveraging its technology leadership position and growing a diverse and inclusive skills base."

"Companies are more successful and profitable if they have diversity at the heart of their businesses."

"Let’s inspire kids in to digital, have more young women joining and staying in the tech sector & encourage diversity in the boardroom."

"Startups are uniquely positioned to embrace diversity and I think that’s because they are full of ideas, they have a mindset which is very entrepreneurial and their ideas can change the world."

"So role modelling for diversity comes from the top."

"The tone is set by the board, by the C-suite and by everyone cascading it downwards."

"It’s really important that we get that commitment from the top."

"I guess with that in mind, from a leadership perspective, the motivation levels of the team and the happiness of the end customer."

"So I believe that diversity is the only way that you can really create competitive advantage."

"It’s never too late to start the diversity and inclusion journey."

"I believe that the greatest threat to diversity is the belief that someone else will fix it."

"So on that basis, start today."

"lt has been a bit of a journey, my career, in a good way."

"I went for a promotion."

"I too have often dreamed of a union of that greater nation to which we belong, as a branch belongs to the trunk, expecting revolutions, heroes, and various changes in the sentiments of nations, which should come and favor the dream. The great federalism of European peoples, which will one day come, as surely as we live, will also bear German colors; for everything great, profound, and eternal in all European institutions is German – that is the certainty that has remained to me among all those hopes. Who can still separate the German element out of Europe?"