Michael Gove
As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.Collection: Failure
Labor, under their current leadership, want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class children should stick to the station in life they were born into - they should be happy to be recognized for being good with their hands and not presume to get above themselves.Collection: Leadership
The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.Collection: Leadership
Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.Collection: Sympathy
The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.Collection: Teacher
The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.Collection: Knowledge
I sometimes think that the In campaign appears to be operating to a script written by George R.R. Martin and Stephen King - Brexit would mean a combination of 'A Feast for Crows' and 'Misery.'
What's a fact is that we give more than £350 million to the European Union and hand over control of that money to the European Union every week.
There are economic risks if we leave, economic risks if we remain.
I don't think there will be a recession as a result of a vote to leave.
I absolutely think that David Cameron should stay, whatever the result of the referendum, and I hope that he will stay for the full second term which he was elected to serve.
I am on the side of the people.
Too many people go to university.
The reason why I'm in Parliament is not really to see my colleagues win power; it is to see us at last in a position where we can give it up.
Life would have been easier for me if I had taken the path of least resistance.
The first thing I would like to say is that I don't think folk at Westminster - or for that matter at Holyrood - constitute an elite. They are representatives who are elected and who are at the service of voters who can fire them.
There is no prospect of any of us being able to kick out any of the presidents of Europe; they operate in a sphere and a realm well away from and out of reach of and out of touch with the people.
I just think it is entirely normal for the United Kingdom to be an independent nation state.
I won't criticise anyone else's statements, and the public will make up their own minds. And if the public think that any side or any individual has strayed too far away from what's expected of public representatives, then they'll make that judgement.
I found reading Alan Bennett striking because you have this sudden flash of recognition when you read about a boy who has intellectual interests utterly different from his parents.
My parents adopted me, and then, by the age of four or five, I was asking all sorts of questions, and they found themselves with a son who was interested in the sorts of things that they valued but weren't natural to them.
I was very lucky in that I had a couple of teachers who were particularly supportive.
If events had taken a different course, I could have been one of those children going to a school without the sorts of opportunities that I've subsequently had.
If we, in the future, have confidence in ourselves, then there's no limit to what we can achieve, and I think the depressing litany... that we hear from the Remain side is not the type of approach we should take into the future.
I think, instead of the pessimism of the Remain campaign, we have an opportunity to think of the next generation. If we have faith in their talent, in their generosity, in their hard work, we can, if we leave the E.U., ensure the next generation makes this country once more truly great.
There are great things that Britain can do in the future as a progressive beacon. By voting Leave, we have that opportunity.
People should vote for democracy, and Britain should vote for hope.
I can't foretell the future, but I don't believe that the act of leaving the European Union would make our economic position worse; I think it would make it better.
I don't want to have anyone else as Prime Minister other than David Cameron, and if people spend their time thinking about some of this stuff, then they are getting in the way of two things: one, a fair, open, fact-based referendum debate; and two, the Conservative government continuing afterwards in a stable and secure fashion.
I think overall our national security is strengthened if we are able to make the decisions that we need and the alliances that we believe in outside the current structures of the European Union.
Our security and sovereignty stand together.
I believe that there are better opportunities to keep people safe if we are outside the European Union.
Good schools should be left alone.
Ed Balls keeps saying that we are committed to scrapping the EMA. I have never said this. We won't.
The people I admire most are those doing outstanding things for the poorest children, such as Michael Wilshaw at Mossbourne academy, Dan Moynihan and all those at the Harris academies, and those at chains such as Ark and the Haberdashers, who are driving up standards in the poorest areas.
When we vote to leave, I think a majority of people in Scotland will also vote to leave as well.
The economic basis on which Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish nationalists made the case for separation was based on an oil price much higher than it is at the moment, so there will be no case for it.
Scottish nationalism has grown since we entered the European Union.
There wasn't a Scottish nationalist MP elected at any general election when we were outside the E.U.
I am in favour of migration; I simply want to control the numbers.
One thing is undeniable. If we are going to continue to have support for migration, we need to be able to control the numbers.
One of the reasons why Australia and Canada have support for migration is because they control the numbers.
In England, more than in any comparable country, those who are born poor are more likely to stay poor, and those who inherit privilege are more likely to pass on privilege. For those of us who believe in social justice, this stratification and segregation are morally indefensible.
I can't influence how other parties choose to vote.
I'm not asking the public to trust me; I'm asking the public to trust themselves.
The people who are backing the Remain campaign are people who have done very well, thank you, out of the European Union.
I'm one of many who have seen their parents and their friends lose their jobs, lose their income, lose their livelihood because of the European Union.
Don't belittle the hurt that has been caused by the job-destroying machine that is the European Union.
Barack Obama would never accept a court in Mexico decreeing what the law in the United States would be.
My judgment about what is right for this country will always guide me.