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" The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war. "
Michael Gove
May
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World
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" I just think it is entirely normal for the United Kingdom to be an independent nation state. "
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" I see education in the U.K. as a civil rights struggle. "
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Education
I See
" I think the principal purpose of education is to allow each of us, when we become adults, to shape our own future. "
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Own
Think
" I was very lucky in that I had a couple of teachers who were particularly supportive. "
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Who
" It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn through play, master social skills and prepare for formal schooling. "
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Environment
" I want people to concentrate not on my job but on their jobs. "
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Job
Jobs
Want
" Barack Obama would never accept a court in Mexico decreeing what the law in the United States would be. "
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Accept
Never
Mexico
" Traditional Anglicans - whether in Nigeria or Nottingham - have been wary, at best, of the acceptance and welcome given to gay men and women and their sexual choices by secular society. "
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Men
Women
Welcome
" 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
" 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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Empathy
Culture
Children
" 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
" 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
" There wasn't a Scottish nationalist MP elected at any general election when we were outside the E.U. "
Michael Gove
Scottish
Election
General
" 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
" I want people to be the authors of their own life story. "
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People
Life
Story
" 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
" 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
" Too many people go to university. "
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Go
University
Too
" In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying. "
Michael Gove
Stop
Perfection
Me
" I put my country and my principles first. "
Michael Gove
First
Put
Country
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Think
You
Know
" 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
" Anyone who's working in manufacturing here should know they will have increased opportunities if we leave the European Union. "
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Know
Will
Opportunities
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Boy
You
Reading
" I think, instead of the pessimism of the Remain campaign, we have an opportunity to think of the next generation. If we have faith in their talent, in their generosity, in their hard work, we can, if we leave the E.U., ensure the next generation makes this country once more truly great. "
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Work
Opportunity
Hard Work
" Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted. "
Michael Gove
University
Up
Debt
" 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 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. "
Michael Gove
Think
Hope
Result
" 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
Policy
Hope
" There are all sorts of people who will say disobliging things about me. I don't mind that. I would rather people said, 'This is a man that sticks to his principles, not a man who's worried about popularity.' "
Michael Gove
Me
Man
Mind