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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. "
Michael Gove
Long
Parents
Risk
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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
Time
Children
Environment
" One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year. "
Michael Gove
Problems
Children
Day
" 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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World
Vote
" I'm not interested in defending the position of those who already have money, power and privilege. "
Michael Gove
Money
Position
Power
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Say
Country
Immigration
" A lot of schools benefit from parents who are first- or second-generation immigrants, who expect the best for their children. "
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Who
Children
Best
" I have a brother-in-law who lives in Spain. "
Michael Gove
Spain
Brother-In-Law
Lives
" Barack Obama would never accept a court in Mexico decreeing what the law in the United States would be. "
Michael Gove
Accept
Never
Mexico
" 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
Leadership
Good
Happy
" The next leader of this country needs to be someone who believes heart and soul that Britain should be outside the European Union. "
Michael Gove
Country
Leader
Someone
" People should vote for democracy, and Britain should vote for hope. "
Michael Gove
People
Hope
Should
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Christian
Beyond
Organization
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Sister
Love
Care
" 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
Empathy
Culture
Children
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Son
Things
Questions
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Minds
Judgement
Far Away
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Control
Democracy
People
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Power
Need
Moment
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Kick
Reach
People
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Childhood
Children
Love
" It's often the case that successful people invite criticism. "
Michael Gove
Successful
Criticism
Invite
" 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
Expectations
Starting
Low
" Anyone who's working in manufacturing here should know they will have increased opportunities if we leave the European Union. "
Michael Gove
Know
Will
Opportunities
" I wanted to put the national interest before my personal interests. "
Michael Gove
Interest
Personal
Interests
" I want people to be the authors of their own life story. "
Michael Gove
People
Life
Story
" I know myself, from my own background, the E.U. depresses employment and destroys jobs. My father had a business destroyed by the common fisheries policy. "
Michael Gove
Father
Myself
Know
" The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war. "
Michael Gove
May
War
World
" Don't belittle the hurt that has been caused by the job-destroying machine that is the European Union. "
Michael Gove
Been
Belittle
Hurt
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Inspirational
Child
Teacher
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Decisions
Change
Want