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" I am in favour of migration; I simply want to control the numbers. "
Michael Gove
Migration
Numbers
Want
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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Over
" 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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Trust
" 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
" 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.' "
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Me
Man
Mind
" 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
Christian
Analysis
Communism
" You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom? "
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You
Theatre
Teachers
" The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility. "
Michael Gove
Knowledge
Key
Social
" 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
Create
Opportunity
Planning
" 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. "
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Kick
Reach
People
" 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 will do exactly as the Prime Minister asks me. "
Michael Gove
Minister
Will
Prime Minister
" There wasn't a Scottish nationalist MP elected at any general election when we were outside the E.U. "
Michael Gove
Scottish
Election
General
" There are economic risks if we leave, economic risks if we remain. "
Michael Gove
Risks
Remain
Leave
" Many more schools can be outstanding. "
Michael Gove
More
Schools
Many
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Failure
Children
Best
" 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
" 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
Alone
Want
Shadow
" I think the principal purpose of education is to allow each of us, when we become adults, to shape our own future. "
Michael Gove
Future
Own
Think
" 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
" I believed and hoped that we would be able to secure a deal with Europe which would enable us to amend free movement. "
Michael Gove
Europe
Us
Secure
" Scottish nationalism has grown since we entered the European Union. "
Michael Gove
Nationalism
Union
Scottish
" I wanted to put the national interest before my personal interests. "
Michael Gove
Interest
Personal
Interests
" Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve. "
Michael Gove
Education
Achievement
Know
" One thing is undeniable. If we are going to continue to have support for migration, we need to be able to control the numbers. "
Michael Gove
Control
Support
Numbers
" 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
" Life would have been easier for me if I had taken the path of least resistance. "
Michael Gove
Life
Easier
Been
" I have a brother-in-law who lives in Spain. "
Michael Gove
Spain
Brother-In-Law
Lives