Mr Gove said the government must stand for "aspiration, ambition, hard work and excellence - for success based on merit and a celebration of those who do succeed".
"We must not miss this opportunity to enact meaningful reforms to not only strengthen our immigration system but also to ensure that our nation remains a land of opportunity for immigrants, businesses, and all those whose dreams, aspirations, hard work, and success have contributed to our nation's uniqueness, diversity, cultural richness, and economic strength since our founding".
But aspiration is hard thing to measure – especially when it comes to home ownership.
Clegg said he believed children developed at different paces and should have access to a culture of opportunity, aspiration and hard work.
The migrant worker sticks to the established outline of aspiration and hard work that we've come to expect when a character with that particular accent starts talking about harvesting fruit.
Still, local aspirations die hard.
Cameron will say he wants to "create a system that is fair so that we support the aspirations of hard-working people who want to get on in life.
And coming from an average family with limited means meant his greater life aspirations were harder to realize.
"We came here with modest aspirations, to work hard and educate my daughters," said Mr Gillard, 81.
MediaCityUK might be anywhere from Salford to Shanghai, and the Carbuncle Cup nomination for MediaCityUK reads: "For an organisation with high cultural aspirations, it is hard to see how the BBC could have sunk much lower".
Except for the special case of defence, where Britain and France are the only two European countries with serious global aspirations, it is hard to imagine anything working without Germany, the biggest EU member, the main paymaster and the hinge between western and eastern Europe.
