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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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" 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. "

" Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture. "

" There are economic risks if we leave, economic risks if we remain. "

" Barack Obama would never accept a court in Mexico decreeing what the law in the United States would be. "

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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. "

" It's often the case that successful people invite criticism. "

" I don't think there will be a recession as a result of a vote to leave. "

" 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. "

" You know you don't see hospital consultants going on strike, and I don't believe that teachers and head teachers should. It's within their rights, it's a civil right, but I think it is wrong in terms of the reputation of the profession. "

" One thing is undeniable. If we are going to continue to have support for migration, we need to be able to control the numbers. "

" I can't influence how other parties choose to vote. "

" What I think is wrong is spending £9m of taxpayers' money on one particular piece of one-sided propaganda. "

" There wasn't a Scottish nationalist MP elected at any general election when we were outside the E.U. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The majority people in this country are suffering because of our membership of the E.U. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined. "

" I'm not asking the public to trust me; I'm asking the public to trust themselves. "

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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. "

" I have a brother-in-law who lives in Spain. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A lot of schools benefit from parents who are first- or second-generation immigrants, who expect the best for their children. "

" Good schools should be left alone. "