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" Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions. "
Michael Gove
Law
Traditions
Slow
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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. "
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" You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?' "
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" 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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" I recognise that fishing is perhaps not the most high-employment industry in this country, but it's a symbol of what we lost when we entered the E.U.: control over national resources that, if we retained them, we could have husbanded in our interest and, indeed, in the interest of others. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Empower
Best
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Change
Past
Power
" 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
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Beyond
Organization
" The people I admire most are those doing outstanding things for the poorest children, such as Michael Wilshaw at Mossbourne academy, Dan Moynihan and all those at the Harris academies, and those at chains such as Ark and the Haberdashers, who are driving up standards in the poorest areas. "
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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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Need
You
" Good schools should be left alone. "
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Alone
Good
Schools
" 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. "
Michael Gove
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Opportunity
Planning
" I'm not interested in defending the position of those who already have money, power and privilege. "
Michael Gove
Money
Position
Power
" 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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Community
Government
" Our security and sovereignty stand together. "
Michael Gove
Stand
Together
Security
" The free market is not a god; we have to do everything we can to make the market competitive. "
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Make
Everything
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Union
Relationship
Need
" 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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Challenges
World
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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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Money
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" I prefer to take the view of businesspeople who are actually generating jobs and creating wealth. "
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Take
Creating
Wealth
" 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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" 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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" I'm not asking the public to trust me; I'm asking the public to trust themselves. "
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Public
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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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Day
" When we vote to leave, I think a majority of people in Scotland will also vote to leave as well. "
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Think
" 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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" 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. "
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Home
Parent
" One of the reasons why Australia and Canada have support for migration is because they control the numbers. "
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