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" I put my country and my principles first. "
Michael Gove
First
Put
Country
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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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" 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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" Don't belittle the hurt that has been caused by the job-destroying machine that is the European Union. "
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" 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. "
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" I am on the side of the people. "
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" Making promises and then saddling yourself with a political system and a political union that means that you cannot deliver those promises, I fear, doesn't contribute to an atmosphere of trust and confidence in politics. "
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Politics
" 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. "
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" At the beginning of the 20th century, the Conservative cabinet was called Hotel Cecil. "
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Beginning
" It's often the case that successful people invite criticism. "
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Invite
" Ed Balls keeps saying that we are committed to scrapping the EMA. I have never said this. We won't. "
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Said
Never
" Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted. "
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Up
Debt
" Scottish nationalism has grown since we entered the European Union. "
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Union
Scottish
" People should vote for democracy, and Britain should vote for hope. "
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" I have a brother-in-law who lives in Spain. "
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Lives
" 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. "
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Need
People
Control
" Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions. "
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Law
Traditions
Slow
" Whether we vote to leave or remain, there are risks to our future; there are challenges in the global economy. "
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Challenges
Future
Risks
" Life would have been easier for me if I had taken the path of least resistance. "
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Life
Easier
Been
" I think it's time that we said to people who are incapable of acknowledging that they've ever got anything wrong: 'I'm sorry, you've had your day.' Unelected, unaccountable elites, I'm afraid it's time to say, 'You're fired. We are going to take back control.' "
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Day
People
Sorry
" I want people to concentrate not on my job but on their jobs. "
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Job
Jobs
Want
" I can't influence how other parties choose to vote. "
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Influence
How
Choose
" 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. "
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Leadership
Good
Happy
" If we, in the future, have confidence in ourselves, then there's no limit to what we can achieve, and I think the depressing litany... that we hear from the Remain side is not the type of approach we should take into the future. "
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" 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. "
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" There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English. "
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" My judgment about what is right for this country will always guide me. "
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Country
Always
" 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. "
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" One thing is undeniable. If we are going to continue to have support for migration, we need to be able to control the numbers. "
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" 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. "
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