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" Optimists - people who believe in Britain, who believe in democracy - they're the people I believe who will vote for us to leave and take back control. "
Michael Gove
Control
Democracy
People
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" I believed and hoped that we would be able to secure a deal with Europe which would enable us to amend free movement. "
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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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" 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 am on the side of the people. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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Need
" 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. "
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" Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school. "
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" 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. "
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Security
Decisions
Believe
" I was very lucky in that I had a couple of teachers who were particularly supportive. "
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Who
" 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. "
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Failure
Children
Best
" The common fisheries policy essentially gave other European Union nations unfettered access to our fish stocks and - I would hope - that if we leave the European Union, we can once more see the ports of Peterborough and Fraserhead and Grimsby flourishing, because we will take back control of our territorial waters. "
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See
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Hope
" 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. "
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Minds
Judgement
Far Away
" Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted. "
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University
Up
Debt
" I'm not asking the public to trust me; I'm asking the public to trust themselves. "
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Trust Me
Public
Me
" I know myself, from my own background, the E.U. depresses employment and destroys jobs. My father had a business destroyed by the common fisheries policy. "
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Father
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Know
" There wasn't a Scottish nationalist MP elected at any general election when we were outside the E.U. "
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Scottish
Election
General
" I see education in the U.K. as a civil rights struggle. "
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Education
I See
" I believe that there are better opportunities to keep people safe if we are outside the European Union. "
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Opportunities
Better
People
" 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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Christian
Beyond
Organization
" 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. "
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Change
Want
" The free market is not a god; we have to do everything we can to make the market competitive. "
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" At the beginning of the 20th century, the Conservative cabinet was called Hotel Cecil. "
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Hotel
Beginning
" It is vital that teachers can be paid more without having to leave the classroom. This will be particularly important to schools in the most disadvantaged areas as it will empower them to attract and recruit the best teachers. "
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Empower
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" I want people to concentrate not on my job but on their jobs. "
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Job
Jobs
Want
" Whether we vote to leave or remain, there are risks to our future; there are challenges in the global economy. "
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Future
Risks
" 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?' "
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Find
" I'm not interested in defending the position of those who already have money, power and privilege. "
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Power
" Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents. "
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