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" 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. "
Michael Gove
Hand
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Over
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" I don't think I'm a revolutionary, and I'd certainly be an unlikely one. "
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" I don't think there will be a recession as a result of a vote to leave. "
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" 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. "
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" 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.' "
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" 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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" 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.' "
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Mind
" 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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" The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war. "
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" A lot of schools benefit from parents who are first- or second-generation immigrants, who expect the best for their children. "
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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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" I have a brother-in-law who lives in Spain. "
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" The Government wants to give young people from every community the chance to learn about the heroism and sacrifice of our great-grandparents, which is why we are organising visits to the battlefields of the Western Front. "
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" My view is that those challenges will be easier to meet, those risks will be less if we vote to leave because we will have control of the economic levers; we will have control over money we send to the European Union. We will have control over our own laws, and as a result, we will be able to deal with whatever the world throws at us. "
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" 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. "
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