Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" One thing is undeniable. If we are going to continue to have support for migration, we need to be able to control the numbers. "
Michael Gove
Control
Support
Numbers
Related Quotes:
" I see education in the U.K. as a civil rights struggle. "
Michael Gove
Struggle
Education
I See
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Decisions
Change
Want
" The first thing I would like to say is that I don't think folk at Westminster - or for that matter at Holyrood - constitute an elite. They are representatives who are elected and who are at the service of voters who can fire them. "
Michael Gove
Say
Think
Like
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Children
School
Opportunities
" I put my country and my principles first. "
Michael Gove
First
Put
Country
" I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created. "
Michael Gove
Expectations
Starting
Low
" Life would have been easier for me if I had taken the path of least resistance. "
Michael Gove
Life
Easier
Been
" Anyone who's working in manufacturing here should know they will have increased opportunities if we leave the European Union. "
Michael Gove
Know
Will
Opportunities
" There are great things that Britain can do in the future as a progressive beacon. By voting Leave, we have that opportunity. "
Michael Gove
Future
Opportunity
Great
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Decision
Me
Hands
" 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
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Leadership
Good
Happy
" 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
" 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 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. "
Michael Gove
Minds
Judgement
Far Away
" 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
Know
People
Best
" My judgment about what is right for this country will always guide me. "
Michael Gove
Judgment
Country
Always
" What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads. "
Michael Gove
Money
Saying
Trust
" At the moment, I'm afraid that the discipline system doesn't give teachers the support that they need. One thing that I've been struck by is that the number of violent assaults on teachers increased last year. We need to be clear that teachers have the power they need in order to impose discipline. "
Michael Gove
Power
Need
Moment
" I am on the side of the people. "
Michael Gove
People
Side
Am
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Think
Side
Limit
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Parents
Friends
Because
" 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 accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility. "
Michael Gove
Knowledge
Key
Social
" What I think is wrong is spending £9m of taxpayers' money on one particular piece of one-sided propaganda. "
Michael Gove
Propaganda
Money
Think
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Support
Good
Discipline
" The people who are backing the Remain campaign are people who have done very well, thank you, out of the European Union. "
Michael Gove
Campaign
You
Thank You
" 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
" 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
" There are economic risks if we leave, economic risks if we remain. "
Michael Gove
Risks
Remain
Leave