Top 100 Michael Gove Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. Life would have been easier for me if I had taken the path of least resistance.

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#3. The reason I entered politics was a belief that the people of this country - having achieved so much that was good and noble in our past - had the potential to do amazing things in the future.

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#4. 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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#5. One of the reasons why Australia and Canada have support for migration is because they control the numbers.

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#6. I want there to be an open and positive debate about the path the country will now take. Whatever the verdict of that debate I will respect it.

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#7. The British prime minister will want to have a strong and positive relationship with European leaders always.

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#8. With the single exception of Park Lane, every north-south route in London slows traffic to the pace of a wounded gnat with pleurisy struggling with a squaddie's backpack.

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#9. The free market is not a god; we have to do everything we can to make the market competitive.

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#10. I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood, ready to pick me up when I fell and support me when I stumbled.

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#11. People should vote for democracy, and Britain should vote for hope.

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#12. 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.

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#13. It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

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#14. I will do exactly as the Prime Minister asks me.

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#15. We need to face the fact that we need more money in order to deliver Jeremy Hunt's absolutely correct drive to guarantee even better standards of care.

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#16. I want people to concentrate not on my job but on their jobs.

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#17. 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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#18. 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.

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#19. Anyone who's working in manufacturing here should know they will have increased opportunities if we leave the European Union.

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#20. Let me first of all congratulate both of the candidates who have made it through - both Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom are formidable politicians and they have fought great campaigns and they deserve to be in the final two.

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#21. Boris Johnson is a man of great attributes and great qualities.

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#22. Were I ever alone in the dock, I would not want to be arraigned before our flawed tribunals, knowing my freedom could be forfeit as a result of political pressures. I would prefer a fair trial, under the shadow of the noose.

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#23. 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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#24. I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.

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#25. They [British people] told us to restore democratic control of immigration policy and to spend their money on national priorities such as health, education and science instead of giving it to Brussels.

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#26. It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

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#27. 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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#28. I prefer to take the view of businesspeople who are actually generating jobs and creating wealth.

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#29. The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

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#30. I hope that in the days to come, I'll be able to convince my colleagues that I should be one of the candidates that Conservative party members can choose from.

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#31. 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.

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#32. The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

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#33. 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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#34. 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.

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#35. I absolutely haven't set out to burnish a reputation as a macho figure by picking fights.

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#36. My judgment about what is right for this country will always guide me.

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#37. Ed Balls keeps saying that we are committed to scrapping the EMA. I have never said this. We won't.

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#38. The challenges facing Britain required not just a cool head, but a heart burning with the desire for change - not business as usual but a bold vision.

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#39. If we leave the European Union, yes there will be bumps in the road, inevitably, but we will be in a better position to deal with them.

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#40. The first four months of my life were spent in care, before I was adopted by my wonderful parents - my mum and dad - Ernie and Christine. They went on to adopt my sister, who is profoundly deaf, and invested both of us with a love and support that informs everything I do today.

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#41. 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.

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#42. Scottish nationalism has grown since we entered the European Union.

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#43. I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.

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#44. The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war.

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#45. I know what it's like to see someone lose their job as a result of the European Union. I saw my father lose his job, I saw his business go to the wall, I saw 24 people who he employed also lose their jobs.

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#46. I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don't think it solved anything. It only made the situation worse for everyone involved.

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#47. 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.

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#48. I am delighted by the support I have received from colleagues. It reflects the optimistic message that I've been putting forward.

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#49. 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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#50. You know you don't see hospital consultants going on strike, and I don't believe that teachers and head teachers should. It's within their rights, it's a civil right, but I think it is wrong in terms of the reputation of the profession.

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#51. 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.

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#52. 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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#53. In order to be able to reduce migration we need to be outside the European Union.

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#54. One of reasons I was able to go to university was because of the sacrifices my family made.

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#55. If you vote to leave the E.U ... we will have additional flexibility to help industries who really need it.

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#56. I felt we needed someone to lead this country who believed heart and soul in leaving the European Union.

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#57. Good schools should be left alone.

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#58. Barack Obama would never accept a court in Mexico decreeing what the law in the United States would be.

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#59. 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.

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#60. 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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#61. Because my parents took a risk on me not knowing a thing about me.They believed that in everyone there is potential - that by believing in someone, loving them, nurturing them, you can bring out that potential.

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#62. The Government wants to give young people from every community the chance to learn about the heroism and sacrifice of our great-grandparents, which is why we are organising visits to the battlefields of the Western Front.

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#63. We have a unique chance to heal divisions, give everyone a stake in the future and set an example as the most creative, innovative and progressive country in the world.

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#64. I want people to be the authors of their own life story.

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#65. 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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#66. 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.

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#67. 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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#68. Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.

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#69. 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.'

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#70. It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn through play, master social skills and prepare for formal schooling.

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#71. 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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#72. 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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#73. I believe that there are better opportunities to keep people safe if we are outside the European Union.

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#74. 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.

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#75. For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek

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#76. 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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#77. I will do everything that is required in order to bring immigration down to a level that is manageable, that the public believe is right.

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#78. 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.

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#79. 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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#80. When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted.

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#81. 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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#82. 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.

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#83. Whoever the next prime minister of this country will be, it will be a female prime minister and a female prime minister who has formidable skills and I know whichever one of the two wins they will lead this country well.

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#84. 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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#85. 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.

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#86. It was a tough choice [of PM]. I voted for a Scotsman.

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#87. Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing job.

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#88. Whatever else I know, I know that if you invest love and care in any individual you can help them to make a difference, to write their own life story.

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#89. I have a brother-in-law who lives in Spain.

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#90. I will put my heart and soul into making sure that the care your son or daughter or mum or dad receives is the same I would want for my own family.

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#91. I remember my mum explaining to me what adoption meant when I was still at primary school. 'Son,' she said to me, 'you didn't grow under my heart, you grew in it'.

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#92. 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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#93. I don't think there will be a recession as a result of a vote to leave.

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#94. The promise to use the money we currently send to Brussels and invest it instead on the priorities of the British people - principally in the NHS - and to cut VAT on domestic fuel. With my leadership, it will be delivered.

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#95. I don't think I'm a revolutionary, and I'd certainly be an unlikely one.

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#96. I have come, reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris [Johnson] cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead.

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#97. 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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#98. One thing is undeniable. If we are going to continue to have support for migration, we need to be able to control the numbers.

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#99. When we vote to leave, I think a majority of people in Scotland will also vote to leave as well.

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#100. Too many people go to university.

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