Michael Gove

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I prefer to take the view of businesspeople who are actually generating jobs and creating wealth.
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Jamie Dimon and J.P. Morgan are contributing millions to the Remain campaign because they do very nicely, thank you, out of the E.U.
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We have, in the E.U., a market rigged in favour of the rich and stacked against the poor, and I think that's wrong.
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I'm not interested in defending the position of those who already have money, power and privilege.
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What I think is wrong is spending £9m of taxpayers' money on one particular piece of one-sided propaganda.
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The decision to trigger Article 50 is in the hands of the next prime minister. If that is me, I will make a judgement as to when is right for Britain, and I won't be hurried or hassled by anyone into pressing that button or triggering that article until I believe it is right for this country.
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Whether we vote to leave or remain, there are risks to our future; there are challenges in the global economy.
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My view is that those challenges will be easier to meet, those risks will be less if we vote to leave because we will have control of the economic levers; we will have control over money we send to the European Union. We will have control over our own laws, and as a result, we will be able to deal with whatever the world throws at us.
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I think the depressing litany of projections about World War Three and global Brexit recession we hear from the Remain side is not the sort of approach we should take into the future.
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Traditional Anglicans - whether in Nigeria or Nottingham - have been wary, at best, of the acceptance and welcome given to gay men and women and their sexual choices by secular society.
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There aren't many contemporary Christian leaders who are both energetic in their condemnation of the crimes of communism and robust in their analysis of the evil of Islamism, but Justin Welby stands out.
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In my view, our immigration policy means that we have some people who can come into this country - who we might want to say no to - and others, who we might want to attract, who can't currently come in.
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Anyone who's working in manufacturing here should know they will have increased opportunities if we leave the European Union.
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Optimists - people who believe in Britain, who believe in democracy - they're the people I believe who will vote for us to leave and take back control.
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I will do exactly as the Prime Minister asks me.
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I want people to concentrate not on my job but on their jobs.
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Making promises and then saddling yourself with a political system and a political union that means that you cannot deliver those promises, I fear, doesn't contribute to an atmosphere of trust and confidence in politics.
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I believed and hoped that we would be able to secure a deal with Europe which would enable us to amend free movement.
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I have specifically argued that we need to change our relationship with the European Union by fundamentally reforming not just our relationship but the European Union itself.
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No-one is forced to stand for Parliament; no-one is compelled to become a minister. If you take on those roles, which are great privileges, you also take on big responsibilities.
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I was encouraged to stand for Parliament by David Cameron, and he has given me the opportunity to serve in what I believe is a great, reforming government. I think he is an outstanding Prime Minister.
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I believe that the decisions which govern all our lives, the laws we must all obey, and the taxes we must all pay should be decided by people we choose and who we can throw out if we want change.
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The ability to choose who governs us, and the freedom to change laws we do not like, were secured for us in the past by radicals and liberals who took power from unaccountable elites and placed it in the hands of the people.
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If you vote to leave the E.U.... we will have additional flexibility to help industries who really need it.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, the Conservative cabinet was called Hotel Cecil.
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I see education in the U.K. as a civil rights struggle.
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I don't think I'm a revolutionary, and I'd certainly be an unlikely one.
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Democratic self-government has manifestly brought benefits to India, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, South Africa, South Korea, and scores of nations all making their way in the world.
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Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions.
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I think the people in this country have had enough of experts with organisations from acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong.
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It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.
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We have the opportunity not just to choose our job or profession, but also to choose the sort of life we want to live and the imprint we will leave on others.
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Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.
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My sister and I know our lives could have been different - radically, unthinkably, irretrievably different - if we had not been adopted. We might have found ourselves in homes without love, stability or kindness. We might have found ourselves in care for much longer, without the secure attachment that being cradled in a mother's arms brings.
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One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year.
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In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.
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The free market is not a god; we have to do everything we can to make the market competitive.
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Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.
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I have a brother-in-law who lives in Spain.
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At the moment, I'm afraid that the discipline system doesn't give teachers the support that they need. One thing that I've been struck by is that the number of violent assaults on teachers increased last year. We need to be clear that teachers have the power they need in order to impose discipline.
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I absolutely haven't set out to burnish a reputation as a macho figure by picking fights.
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It is vital that teachers can be paid more without having to leave the classroom. This will be particularly important to schools in the most disadvantaged areas as it will empower them to attract and recruit the best teachers.
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Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.
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Well I've been crystal clear that we should not have schools which are set up by extremists whether they're Christian fundamentalists, Islamic fundamentalists or any other sort of outrageous and beyond the pale organization.
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A coalition with Tories and Liberal Democrats together is a golden opportunity to create the sort of planning reform that means not only can we have more environmentally sensitive planning, but we can have more homes and more schools.
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You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom?
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Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school.
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Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.
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What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
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