"I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic."

“Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement”

Source : "Why It’s Dangerous to Become ‘Too Comfortable’" by Alicia T. Glenn, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

“I came in with my idea of what a cowboy would wear, but then I met some real cowboys and they said that I rode the horses well, shoed the horses, but no good cowboy would be wearing a pair of Levi's. I had to get a good old pair of Wranglers.”

“Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.”

“My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.”

“Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin.”

Source : "Tom Barrett vs. Scott Walker: A Q&A session". "The Associated Press" Interview, www.winonadailynews.com. May 27, 2012.

“I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!”

“If it is ever your misfortune to be attacked, alertness will have given you a little warning, decisiveness will have given you a proper course to pursue, and if that course is to counterattack, carry it out with everything you've got! Be indignant. Be angry. Be aggressive.”

“The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.”

Source : "The Art of the Soluble". Book by Peter Medawar, 1967.