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" 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. "
Michael Gove
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" The next leader of this country needs to be someone who believes heart and soul that Britain should be outside the European Union. "
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" I want people to concentrate not on my job but on their jobs. "
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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. "
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" It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning. "
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" My view is that those challenges will be easier to meet, those risks will be less if we vote to leave because we will have control of the economic levers; we will have control over money we send to the European Union. We will have control over our own laws, and as a result, we will be able to deal with whatever the world throws at us. "
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" Our security and sovereignty stand together. "
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" I believe that there are better opportunities to keep people safe if we are outside the European Union. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" A coalition with Tories and Liberal Democrats together is a golden opportunity to create the sort of planning reform that means not only can we have more environmentally sensitive planning, but we can have more homes and more schools. "
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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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" Good schools should be left alone. "
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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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" 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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" I have a brother-in-law who lives in Spain. "
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" The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing. "
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" 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. "
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" Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions. "
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" No-one is forced to stand for Parliament; no-one is compelled to become a minister. If you take on those roles, which are great privileges, you also take on big responsibilities. "
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" 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. "
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" I think the principal purpose of education is to allow each of us, when we become adults, to shape our own future. "
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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. "
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" 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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