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" 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

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" Were I ever alone in the dock, I would not want to be arraigned before our flawed tribunals, knowing my freedom could be forfeit as a result of political pressures. I would prefer a fair trial, under the shadow of the noose. "

" I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals. "

" There aren't many contemporary Christian leaders who are both energetic in their condemnation of the crimes of communism and robust in their analysis of the evil of Islamism, but Justin Welby stands out. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Scottish nationalism has grown since we entered the European Union. "

" My sister and I know our lives could have been different - radically, unthinkably, irretrievably different - if we had not been adopted. We might have found ourselves in homes without love, stability or kindness. We might have found ourselves in care for much longer, without the secure attachment that being cradled in a mother's arms brings. "

" Whether we vote to leave or remain, there are risks to our future; there are challenges in the global economy. "

" A lot of schools benefit from parents who are first- or second-generation immigrants, who expect the best for their children. "

" 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, 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. "

" 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. "

" What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads. "

" I believed and hoped that we would be able to secure a deal with Europe which would enable us to amend free movement. "

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" The free market is not a god; we have to do everything we can to make the market competitive. "

" As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm not interested in defending the position of those who already have money, power and privilege. "

" 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. "

" I put my country and my principles first. "

" The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war. "

" I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools. "

" 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. "