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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Many more schools can be outstanding. "

Michael Gove

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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. "

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

" There are economic risks if we leave, economic risks if we remain. "

" I was very lucky in that I had a couple of teachers who were particularly supportive. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are great things that Britain can do in the future as a progressive beacon. By voting Leave, we have that opportunity. "

" 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. "

" I wanted to put the national interest before my personal interests. "

" 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. "

" There are all sorts of people who will say disobliging things about me. I don't mind that. I would rather people said, 'This is a man that sticks to his principles, not a man who's worried about popularity.' "

Michael Gove

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year. "

" 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. "

" I just think it is entirely normal for the United Kingdom to be an independent nation state. "

" 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. "

" At the beginning of the 20th century, the Conservative cabinet was called Hotel Cecil. "

" 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. "

" One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists, to experts in coding and to young people about. "

" I can't influence how other parties choose to vote. "

" I believe that there are better opportunities to keep people safe if we are outside the European Union. "