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" 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. "
Michael Gove
Men
Women
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" I want people to be the authors of their own life story. "
Michael Gove
People
Life
Story
" 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
" 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
" Whether we vote to leave or remain, there are risks to our future; there are challenges in the global economy. "
Michael Gove
Challenges
Future
Risks
" I don't want to have anyone else as Prime Minister other than David Cameron, and if people spend their time thinking about some of this stuff, then they are getting in the way of two things: one, a fair, open, fact-based referendum debate; and two, the Conservative government continuing afterwards in a stable and secure fashion. "
Michael Gove
People
Want
Government
" People should vote for democracy, and Britain should vote for hope. "
Michael Gove
People
Hope
Should
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Security
Decisions
Believe
" 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
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Father
Myself
Know
" I see education in the U.K. as a civil rights struggle. "
Michael Gove
Struggle
Education
I See
" The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter. "
Michael Gove
Daughter
Leadership
Horror
" I don't think I'm a revolutionary, and I'd certainly be an unlikely one. "
Michael Gove
Think
Revolutionary
Unlikely
" 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 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
" 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
" I absolutely haven't set out to burnish a reputation as a macho figure by picking fights. "
Michael Gove
Absolutely
Set
Reputation
" In my view, our immigration policy means that we have some people who can come into this country - who we might want to say no to - and others, who we might want to attract, who can't currently come in. "
Michael Gove
Say
Country
Immigration
" The next leader of this country needs to be someone who believes heart and soul that Britain should be outside the European Union. "
Michael Gove
Country
Leader
Someone
" 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
" My judgment about what is right for this country will always guide me. "
Michael Gove
Judgment
Country
Always
" 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
" I sometimes think that the In campaign appears to be operating to a script written by George R.R. Martin and Stephen King - Brexit would mean a combination of 'A Feast for Crows' and 'Misery.' "
Michael Gove
King
Misery
Sometimes
" I am on the side of the people. "
Michael Gove
People
Side
Am
" I'm not interested in defending the position of those who already have money, power and privilege. "
Michael Gove
Money
Position
Power
" I recognise that fishing is perhaps not the most high-employment industry in this country, but it's a symbol of what we lost when we entered the E.U.: control over national resources that, if we retained them, we could have husbanded in our interest and, indeed, in the interest of others. "
Michael Gove
Control
Fishing
Country
" There are economic risks if we leave, economic risks if we remain. "
Michael Gove
Risks
Remain
Leave
" I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more. "
Michael Gove
Authority
Teachers
Clarity
" 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. "
Michael Gove
Big
Stand
Take
" Scottish nationalism has grown since we entered the European Union. "
Michael Gove
Nationalism
Union
Scottish
" What I think is wrong is spending £9m of taxpayers' money on one particular piece of one-sided propaganda. "
Michael Gove
Propaganda
Money
Think