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" I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools. "
Michael Gove
Our
Need
Improve
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" Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted. "
Michael Gove
University
Up
Debt
" You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?' "
Michael Gove
More
Book
Find
" 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
" Too many people go to university. "
Michael Gove
Go
University
Too
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Daughter
Leadership
Horror
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Say
Country
Immigration
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Big
Stand
Take
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Control
Fishing
Country
" 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.' "
Michael Gove
Day
People
Sorry
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Teachers
Different
Education
" 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. "
Michael Gove
India
Way
World
" The next leader of this country needs to be someone who believes heart and soul that Britain should be outside the European Union. "
Michael Gove
Country
Leader
Someone
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Need
People
Control
" I am in favour of migration; I simply want to control the numbers. "
Michael Gove
Migration
Numbers
Want
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Choose
Opportunity
Live
" What I think is wrong is spending £9m of taxpayers' money on one particular piece of one-sided propaganda. "
Michael Gove
Propaganda
Money
Think
" I think overall our national security is strengthened if we are able to make the decisions that we need and the alliances that we believe in outside the current structures of the European Union. "
Michael Gove
Security
Decisions
Believe
" I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more. "
Michael Gove
Authority
Teachers
Clarity
" You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom? "
Michael Gove
You
Theatre
Teachers
" Ed Balls keeps saying that we are committed to scrapping the EMA. I have never said this. We won't. "
Michael Gove
Saying
Said
Never
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Challenges
World
Vote
" The majority people in this country are suffering because of our membership of the E.U. "
Michael Gove
Membership
Suffering
People
" In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying. "
Michael Gove
Stop
Perfection
Me
" Jamie Dimon and J.P. Morgan are contributing millions to the Remain campaign because they do very nicely, thank you, out of the E.U. "
Michael Gove
Campaign
Because
Out
" I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals. "
Michael Gove
Believe
I Believe
I Believe In
" I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don't think it solved anything. It only made the situation worse for everyone involved. "
Michael Gove
Situation
Everyone
Youth
" There are economic risks if we leave, economic risks if we remain. "
Michael Gove
Risks
Remain
Leave
" It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning. "
Michael Gove
Result
Learning
Language
" I can't influence how other parties choose to vote. "
Michael Gove
Influence
How
Choose
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Think
Leaving
Future