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" I absolutely haven't set out to burnish a reputation as a macho figure by picking fights. "
Michael Gove
Absolutely
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Reputation
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" I think it's time that we said to people who are incapable of acknowledging that they've ever got anything wrong: 'I'm sorry, you've had your day.' Unelected, unaccountable elites, I'm afraid it's time to say, 'You're fired. We are going to take back control.' "
Michael Gove
Day
People
Sorry
" 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
" It's often the case that successful people invite criticism. "
Michael Gove
Successful
Criticism
Invite
" I want people to concentrate not on my job but on their jobs. "
Michael Gove
Job
Jobs
Want
" My judgment about what is right for this country will always guide me. "
Michael Gove
Judgment
Country
Always
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Three
Think
Future
" Life would have been easier for me if I had taken the path of least resistance. "
Michael Gove
Life
Easier
Been
" No-one is forced to stand for Parliament; no-one is compelled to become a minister. If you take on those roles, which are great privileges, you also take on big responsibilities. "
Michael Gove
Big
Stand
Take
" Our security and sovereignty stand together. "
Michael Gove
Stand
Together
Security
" I wanted to put the national interest before my personal interests. "
Michael Gove
Interest
Personal
Interests
" 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
" 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. "
Michael Gove
See
Policy
Hope
" 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
" I am in favour of migration; I simply want to control the numbers. "
Michael Gove
Migration
Numbers
Want
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Authority
Teachers
Clarity
" I'm not asking the public to trust me; I'm asking the public to trust themselves. "
Michael Gove
Trust Me
Public
Me
" There are economic risks if we leave, economic risks if we remain. "
Michael Gove
Risks
Remain
Leave
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Decision
Me
Hands
" A lot of schools benefit from parents who are first- or second-generation immigrants, who expect the best for their children. "
Michael Gove
Who
Children
Best
" 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
Support
Good
Discipline
" Barack Obama would never accept a court in Mexico decreeing what the law in the United States would be. "
Michael Gove
Accept
Never
Mexico
" I put my country and my principles first. "
Michael Gove
First
Put
Country
" 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.' "
Michael Gove
King
Misery
Sometimes
" In England, more than in any comparable country, those who are born poor are more likely to stay poor, and those who inherit privilege are more likely to pass on privilege. For those of us who believe in social justice, this stratification and segregation are morally indefensible. "
Michael Gove
Born
Justice
Poor
" I don't think I'm a revolutionary, and I'd certainly be an unlikely one. "
Michael Gove
Think
Revolutionary
Unlikely
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Say
Think
Like
" 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 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
" 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
" 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