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" There are economic risks if we leave, economic risks if we remain. "
Michael Gove
Risks
Remain
Leave
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Want
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" Ed Balls keeps saying that we are committed to scrapping the EMA. I have never said this. We won't. "
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Said
Never
" Barack Obama would never accept a court in Mexico decreeing what the law in the United States would be. "
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" I think the depressing litany of projections about World War Three and global Brexit recession we hear from the Remain side is not the sort of approach we should take into the future. "
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Three
Think
Future
" 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'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools. "
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Our
Need
Improve
" The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility. "
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Knowledge
Key
Social
" The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing. "
Michael Gove
Inspirational
Child
Teacher
" I want people to concentrate not on my job but on their jobs. "
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Job
Jobs
Want
" I am in favour of migration; I simply want to control the numbers. "
Michael Gove
Migration
Numbers
Want
" 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 don't think I'm a revolutionary, and I'd certainly be an unlikely one. "
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Think
Revolutionary
Unlikely
" I put my country and my principles first. "
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First
Put
Country
" Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life. "
Michael Gove
Children
Learning
Life
" One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year. "
Michael Gove
Problems
Children
Day
" In England, more than in any comparable country, those who are born poor are more likely to stay poor, and those who inherit privilege are more likely to pass on privilege. For those of us who believe in social justice, this stratification and segregation are morally indefensible. "
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Born
Justice
Poor
" 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
" 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
" Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve. "
Michael Gove
Education
Achievement
Know
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Class
Control
Teachers
" 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 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
" There wasn't a Scottish nationalist MP elected at any general election when we were outside the E.U. "
Michael Gove
Scottish
Election
General
" 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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Time
Children
Environment
" 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. "
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Big
Stand
Take
" What's a fact is that we give more than £350 million to the European Union and hand over control of that money to the European Union every week. "
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Hand
Control
Over
" 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
" The ability to choose who governs us, and the freedom to change laws we do not like, were secured for us in the past by radicals and liberals who took power from unaccountable elites and placed it in the hands of the people. "
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Change
Past
Power
" Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted. "
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University
Up
Debt
" 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
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