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" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Many more schools can be outstanding. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year. "

" I found reading Alan Bennett striking because you have this sudden flash of recognition when you read about a boy who has intellectual interests utterly different from his parents. "

" It's the invincible arrogance of Europe's elites that gets me. These are people who have seen the euro collapse. These are people who are presiding over a migration crisis on their borders, and yet do they ever acknowledge that they need to change? No. They say they need more integration, more of our money, more control over this country. "

" 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. "

" Barack Obama would never accept a court in Mexico decreeing what the law in the United States would be. "

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" I want people to concentrate not on my job but on their jobs. "

" In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying. "

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" The free market is not a god; we have to do everything we can to make the market competitive. "

" If you vote to leave the E.U.... we will have additional flexibility to help industries who really need it. "

" We have, in the E.U., a market rigged in favour of the rich and stacked against the poor, and I think that's wrong. "

" 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. "

" I think overall our national security is strengthened if we are able to make the decisions that we need and the alliances that we believe in outside the current structures of the European Union. "

" We have the opportunity not just to choose our job or profession, but also to choose the sort of life we want to live and the imprint we will leave on others. "

" I can't influence how other parties choose to vote. "

" I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals. "

" I am on the side of the people. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" The majority people in this country are suffering because of our membership of the E.U. "

" Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions. "

" I don't think I'm a revolutionary, and I'd certainly be an unlikely one. "

" I want people to be the authors of their own life story. "

" 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. "

" Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture. "