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" 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. "
Michael Gove
Union
Relationship
Need
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" 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
" Scottish nationalism has grown since we entered the European Union. "
Michael Gove
Nationalism
Union
Scottish
" 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
" 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
" I prefer to take the view of businesspeople who are actually generating jobs and creating wealth. "
Michael Gove
Take
Creating
Wealth
" 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
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Children
School
Opportunities
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Nothing
Home
Parent
" 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
" 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
" Too many people go to university. "
Michael Gove
Go
University
Too
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Work
Opportunity
Hard Work
" It's often the case that successful people invite criticism. "
Michael Gove
Successful
Criticism
Invite
" Life would have been easier for me if I had taken the path of least resistance. "
Michael Gove
Life
Easier
Been
" Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture. "
Michael Gove
Culture
Children
Teachers
" I was very lucky in that I had a couple of teachers who were particularly supportive. "
Michael Gove
Teachers
Supportive
Who
" I want people to concentrate not on my job but on their jobs. "
Michael Gove
Job
Jobs
Want
" 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
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Time
Children
Environment
" I don't think I'm a revolutionary, and I'd certainly be an unlikely one. "
Michael Gove
Think
Revolutionary
Unlikely
" Whether we vote to leave or remain, there are risks to our future; there are challenges in the global economy. "
Michael Gove
Challenges
Future
Risks
" The majority people in this country are suffering because of our membership of the E.U. "
Michael Gove
Membership
Suffering
People
" I will do exactly as the Prime Minister asks me. "
Michael Gove
Minister
Will
Prime Minister
" There are economic risks if we leave, economic risks if we remain. "
Michael Gove
Risks
Remain
Leave
" I was encouraged to stand for Parliament by David Cameron, and he has given me the opportunity to serve in what I believe is a great, reforming government. I think he is an outstanding Prime Minister. "
Michael Gove
Think
Government
Great
" The people I admire most are those doing outstanding things for the poorest children, such as Michael Wilshaw at Mossbourne academy, Dan Moynihan and all those at the Harris academies, and those at chains such as Ark and the Haberdashers, who are driving up standards in the poorest areas. "
Michael Gove
Driving
Doing
Children
" What I think is wrong is spending £9m of taxpayers' money on one particular piece of one-sided propaganda. "
Michael Gove
Propaganda
Money
Think
" There are great things that Britain can do in the future as a progressive beacon. By voting Leave, we have that opportunity. "
Michael Gove
Future
Opportunity
Great
" When we vote to leave, I think a majority of people in Scotland will also vote to leave as well. "
Michael Gove
Well
People
Think
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Boy
You
Reading