"For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred." ― John W. Gardner Topic(s): Politics More From John W. Gardner "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities – brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems." "Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants." "It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government." More In Politics "What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again."― Estelle Morris "I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics."― George Osborne "I don’t want to discredit people’s individuality, but I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar. If you have a good enough imagination then you can feel things that you personally have never done before. That’s acting."― Kristen Stewart