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" Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you've never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding as being an adoptive parent. "
Michael Gove
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" 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. "
Michael Gove
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" The people who are backing the Remain campaign are people who have done very well, thank you, out of the European Union. "
Michael Gove
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
Michael Gove
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" Ed Balls keeps saying that we are committed to scrapping the EMA. I have never said this. We won't. "
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" 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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" I'm not asking the public to trust me; I'm asking the public to trust themselves. "
Michael Gove
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" 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. "
Michael Gove
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" I think the principal purpose of education is to allow each of us, when we become adults, to shape our own future. "
Michael Gove
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" 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. "
Michael Gove
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Children
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" The common fisheries policy essentially gave other European Union nations unfettered access to our fish stocks and - I would hope - that if we leave the European Union, we can once more see the ports of Peterborough and Fraserhead and Grimsby flourishing, because we will take back control of our territorial waters. "
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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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" 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. "
Michael Gove
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" Life would have been easier for me if I had taken the path of least resistance. "
Michael Gove
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" The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility. "
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" I see education in the U.K. as a civil rights struggle. "
Michael Gove
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" I was very lucky in that I had a couple of teachers who were particularly supportive. "
Michael Gove
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" 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. "
Michael Gove
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" I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals. "
Michael Gove
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" 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. "
Michael Gove
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" 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. "
Michael Gove
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" 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. "
Michael Gove
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" 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. "
Michael Gove
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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. "
Michael Gove
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" The free market is not a god; we have to do everything we can to make the market competitive. "
Michael Gove
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" 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. "
Michael Gove
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" I want people to be the authors of their own life story. "
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" There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English. "
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" Barack Obama would never accept a court in Mexico decreeing what the law in the United States would be. "
Michael Gove
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Never
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