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" I believe that there are better opportunities to keep people safe if we are outside the European Union. "
Michael Gove
Opportunities
Better
People
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" The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility. "
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Key
Social
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Important
Empower
Best
" 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
" Traditional Anglicans - whether in Nigeria or Nottingham - have been wary, at best, of the acceptance and welcome given to gay men and women and their sexual choices by secular society. "
Michael Gove
Men
Women
Welcome
" The people who are backing the Remain campaign are people who have done very well, thank you, out of the European Union. "
Michael Gove
Campaign
You
Thank You
" 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. "
Michael Gove
People
Community
Government
" The economic basis on which Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish nationalists made the case for separation was based on an oil price much higher than it is at the moment, so there will be no case for it. "
Michael Gove
Oil
Separation
Will
" 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
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Think
Leaving
Future
" 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
" 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. "
Michael Gove
India
Way
World
" 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
" Many more schools can be outstanding. "
Michael Gove
More
Schools
Many
" 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
" The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter. "
Michael Gove
Daughter
Leadership
Horror
" 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
" It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning. "
Michael Gove
Result
Learning
Language
" 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 want people to be the authors of their own life story. "
Michael Gove
People
Life
Story
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Control
Fishing
Country
" There are economic risks if we leave, economic risks if we remain. "
Michael Gove
Risks
Remain
Leave
" Too many people go to university. "
Michael Gove
Go
University
Too
" 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
" Good schools should be left alone. "
Michael Gove
Alone
Good
Schools
" 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
" I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals. "
Michael Gove
Believe
I Believe
I Believe In
" I can't influence how other parties choose to vote. "
Michael Gove
Influence
How
Choose
" 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? "
Michael Gove
You
Theatre
Teachers