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" I can't influence how other parties choose to vote. "
Michael Gove
Influence
How
Choose
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" I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created. "
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Starting
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" My judgment about what is right for this country will always guide me. "
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Country
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" The people who are backing the Remain campaign are people who have done very well, thank you, out of the European Union. "
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You
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" Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted. "
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" 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
" 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. "
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Think
Like
" Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children. "
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Culture
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" I prefer to take the view of businesspeople who are actually generating jobs and creating wealth. "
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Creating
Wealth
" Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture. "
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Children
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" I just think it is entirely normal for the United Kingdom to be an independent nation state. "
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Independent
Think
Normal
" At the beginning of the 20th century, the Conservative cabinet was called Hotel Cecil. "
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Conservative
Hotel
Beginning
" 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. "
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Separation
Will
" 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. "
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Boy
You
Reading
" A lot of schools benefit from parents who are first- or second-generation immigrants, who expect the best for their children. "
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Who
Children
Best
" I believe that there are better opportunities to keep people safe if we are outside the European Union. "
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Opportunities
Better
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. "
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Decisions
Change
Want
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Hand
Control
Over
" I'm one of many who have seen their parents and their friends lose their jobs, lose their income, lose their livelihood because of the European Union. "
Michael Gove
Parents
Friends
Because
" 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. "
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Education
Achievement
Know
" Ed Balls keeps saying that we are committed to scrapping the EMA. I have never said this. We won't. "
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Saying
Said
Never
" Many more schools can be outstanding. "
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More
Schools
Many
" 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. "
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Against
Rich
Wrong
" I think the people in this country have had enough of experts with organisations from acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong. "
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Know
People
Best
" There are great things that Britain can do in the future as a progressive beacon. By voting Leave, we have that opportunity. "
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Future
Opportunity
Great
" 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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Man
Mind
" 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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Nothing
Home
Parent
" I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools. "
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Our
Need
Improve
" I think, instead of the pessimism of the Remain campaign, we have an opportunity to think of the next generation. If we have faith in their talent, in their generosity, in their hard work, we can, if we leave the E.U., ensure the next generation makes this country once more truly great. "
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Opportunity
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" 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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