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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. "
Michael Gove
Father
Myself
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" 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. "
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" At the beginning of the 20th century, the Conservative cabinet was called Hotel Cecil. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I absolutely think that David Cameron should stay, whatever the result of the referendum, and I hope that he will stay for the full second term which he was elected to serve. "
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Hope
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" 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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Change
Want
" Many more schools can be outstanding. "
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" The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads. "
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" I am in favour of migration; I simply want to control the numbers. "
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" Well I've been crystal clear that we should not have schools which are set up by extremists whether they're Christian fundamentalists, Islamic fundamentalists or any other sort of outrageous and beyond the pale organization. "
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Beyond
Organization
" The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war. "
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" 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
Children
" I absolutely haven't set out to burnish a reputation as a macho figure by picking fights. "
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Set
Reputation
" I put my country and my principles first. "
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First
Put
Country
" It's often the case that successful people invite criticism. "
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Criticism
Invite
" People should vote for democracy, and Britain should vote for hope. "
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Hope
Should
" There wasn't a Scottish nationalist MP elected at any general election when we were outside the E.U. "
Michael Gove
Scottish
Election
General
" The decision to trigger Article 50 is in the hands of the next prime minister. If that is me, I will make a judgement as to when is right for Britain, and I won't be hurried or hassled by anyone into pressing that button or triggering that article until I believe it is right for this country. "
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Me
Hands
" I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals. "
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I Believe
I Believe In
" The majority people in this country are suffering because of our membership of the E.U. "
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Membership
Suffering
People
" The ability to choose who governs us, and the freedom to change laws we do not like, were secured for us in the past by radicals and liberals who took power from unaccountable elites and placed it in the hands of the people. "
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Change
Past
Power
" I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so. "
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More
Think
" 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. "
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Say
Country
Immigration
" 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. "
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Control
Fishing
Country
" One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year. "
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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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Campaign
You
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" 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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" One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists, to experts in coding and to young people about. "
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" In England, more than in any comparable country, those who are born poor are more likely to stay poor, and those who inherit privilege are more likely to pass on privilege. For those of us who believe in social justice, this stratification and segregation are morally indefensible. "
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Poor