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" 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
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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'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools. "
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" 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. "
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" I am on the side of the people. "
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" I am in favour of migration; I simply want to control the numbers. "
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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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Decisions
Believe
" 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
Best
" There is no prospect of any of us being able to kick out any of the presidents of Europe; they operate in a sphere and a realm well away from and out of reach of and out of touch with the people. "
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Kick
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People
" There are economic risks if we leave, economic risks if we remain. "
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Risks
Remain
Leave
" 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. "
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Childhood
Children
Love
" 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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Oil
Separation
Will
" The people I admire most are those doing outstanding things for the poorest children, such as Michael Wilshaw at Mossbourne academy, Dan Moynihan and all those at the Harris academies, and those at chains such as Ark and the Haberdashers, who are driving up standards in the poorest areas. "
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Driving
Doing
Children
" I absolutely think that David Cameron should stay, whatever the result of the referendum, and I hope that he will stay for the full second term which he was elected to serve. "
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Think
Hope
Result
" I found reading Alan Bennett striking because you have this sudden flash of recognition when you read about a boy who has intellectual interests utterly different from his parents. "
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Boy
You
Reading
" I have a brother-in-law who lives in Spain. "
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Spain
Brother-In-Law
Lives
" 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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Country
Leader
Someone
" 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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Support
Good
Discipline
" 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
" Ed Balls keeps saying that we are committed to scrapping the EMA. I have never said this. We won't. "
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Saying
Said
Never
" The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war. "
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May
War
World
" I put my country and my principles first. "
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First
Put
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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. "
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Control
Democracy
People
" 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
" 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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Learning
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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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Son
Things
Questions
" 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. "
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People
Mathematics
Children
" 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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Union
Relationship
Need
" 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. "
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Parents
Friends
Because
" Good schools should be left alone. "
Michael Gove
Alone
Good
Schools