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Well I've been crystal clear that we should not have schools which are set up by extremists whether they're Christian fundamentalists, Islamic fundamentalists or any other sort of outrageous and beyond the pale organization.
Michael Gove / British Politician
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Organization
Outrageous
Pale
Crystal
Extremists
Fundamentalists
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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.
Michael Gove / British Politician
Fair Trial
Flawed
Forfeit
Shadow
Prefer
Dock
Fair
Pressures
Result
Trial
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It is vital that teachers can be paid more without having to leave the classroom. This will be particularly important to schools in the most disadvantaged areas as it will empower them to attract and recruit the best teachers.
Michael Gove / British Politician
Classroom
Disadvantaged
Recruit
Teachers
Attract
Best Important Will
Empower
Schools
Vital
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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 / British Politician
Daughter
Class
Horror
Labor
Mother Daughter
Party
Subjects
Working Class
Studied
Chauffeur
Current
Earl
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I notice that the number of cosmetic-surgery operations has risen by 34 per cent in the past year. Once we subtract Jordan, Jodie Marsh and Michael Jackson from those figures, we can see that demand overall may have stabilised.
Michael Gove / British Politician
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Past
Years
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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 / British Politician
Confidence
Achieve
Approach
Depressing
Type
Side
Hear
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No Limit
Remain
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The first thing I would like to say is that I don't think folk at Westminster - or for that matter at Holyrood - constitute an elite. They are representatives who are elected and who are at the service of voters who can fire them.
Michael Gove / British Politician
Representatives
Voters
Westminster
Constitute
Elected
Elite
First Thing
Folk
The First Thing
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A coalition with Tories and Liberal Democrats together is a golden opportunity to create the sort of planning reform that means not only can we have more environmentally sensitive planning, but we can have more homes and more schools.
Michael Gove / British Politician
Home
Golden
Mean
Planning
School
Sensitive
Coalition
Democrats
Environmentally
Homes
Liberal
Liberal Democrats
Schools
Tories
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You know, you don't see hospital consultants going on strike, and I don't believe that teachers and headteachers 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 / British Politician
Teacher
Believe
Thinking
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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 / British Politician
Consultants
Profession
Reputation
Teachers
Civil
Hospital
Strike
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We need a national ambition to build hundreds of thousands of new homes a year, both private and socially-rented - led by someone who will not take no for an answer and who will push for diggers in the ground and homes for all come what may.
Michael Gove / British Politician
Home
Ambition
Years
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The common fisheries policy unfortunately led to the devastation of fishing in Scotland. My dad had to close his business. As a result something that he been built up by by grandfather and maintained by my dad disappeared. So my dad suffered.
Michael Gove / British Politician
Dad
Fishing
Scotland
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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 / British Politician
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Far Away
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Judgement
Representatives
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I'll negotiate with toughness, and with great attention to detail to get the best possible deal for Britain. It's only when we are outside the European Union that we can at last bring those numbers [of migrants] under control in the way that the public want.
Michael Gove / British Politician
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Migrants
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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.'
Michael Gove / British Politician
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Incapable
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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.
Michael Gove / British Politician
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Children
School
Years
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Owe
Precious
Stretched
Ultimately
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The first four months of my life were spent in care, before I was adopted by my wonderful parents - my mum and dad - Ernie and Christine. They went on to adopt my sister, who is profoundly deaf, and invested both of us with a love and support that informs everything I do today.
Michael Gove / British Politician
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Parent
Support
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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.
Michael Gove / British Politician
Segregation
Social Justice
Comparable
Indefensible
Inherit
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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.
Michael Gove / British Politician
Men
Access
Battle
Children
Cursing
Generations
Low Expectations
People
Relevant
Education Best Future
Denying
Excuses
Future Generations
Joined
Low
Mister
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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.
Michael Gove / British Politician
Opportunity
Hard Work
Pessimism
Talent
Faith Work Great
Campaign
Leave
Ensure
Generation
Instead
Once More
Remain
Truly
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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.
Michael Gove / British Politician
Fishing
Recognise
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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.
Michael Gove / British Politician
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Ark
Chains
Outstanding
Poorest
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Dan
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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 / British Politician
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Judgement
Prime Minister
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I think that the people of Great Britain have had enough of experts with organisations from acronyms saying - from organisations with acronyms - saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong, because these people - these people - are the same ones who got consistently wrong.
Michael Gove / British Politician
Experts
Had Enough
People
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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 / British Politician
Achievement
Deserve
Figures
Labor
Soviet
Praising
Devalued
Exams
Unfortunately
Production
Measures
Secretaries
Tractor
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At the moment, I'm afraid that the discipline system doesn't give teachers the support that they need. One thing that I've been struck by is that the number of violent assaults on teachers increased last year. We need to be clear that teachers have the power they need in order to impose discipline.
Michael Gove / British Politician
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Discipline
Last Year
One Thing
Afraid
Teachers
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Impose
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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.
Michael Gove / British Politician
Extending
Five
Foreign Language
Pride
Speak
Taken
Understanding
Aged
Case
Languages
Louder
Perverse
Some People
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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.
Michael Gove / British Politician
Access
Common
European Union
Nations
Policy
Territorial
Control
Back
Fish
Leave
Essentially
Gave
Once More
Ports
Union
Stocks
Unfettered
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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 / British Politician
Leadership
Abbey
Downtown
Educational
Labor
Life Good Opportunity
Be Happy
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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.
Michael Gove / British Politician
Approach
Priorities
Teachers
Heads
Schools
Shift
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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 / British Politician
Cameron
Debate
Prime Minister
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Afterwards
Anyone Else
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Minister
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One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists, to experts in coding and to young people about.
Michael Gove / British Politician
Computer
Computer Science
Curriculum
Experts
Past
Talking
Thinking
Coding
Fits
In The Past
One Of The Problems
Scientists
Subject
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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.
Michael Gove / British Politician
Easier
European Union
Vote
Meet
Union
Result
Risks
Send
View
Throws
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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 / British Politician
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Arrogance
Borders
Collapse
Crisis
Elites
Euro
Integration
Invincible
Migration
Change Money Me
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Gets
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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.
Michael Gove / British Politician
Sister
Adopted
Arms
Attachment
Our Lives
Secure
Stability
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Homes
Radically
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I think that what we have heard from the Remain campaign throughout this whole referendum have been dire warnings of the terrible consequences of the British people just taking control of our own destiny.And, the truth is, if we vote to Leave we will be in an economically stronger position. We will be able to take back some of the money that we currently give to the European Union and we can invest it in our priorities.
Michael Gove / British Politician
Destiny
People
Thinking
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Why ... do the myths of America the Hateful take such powerful hold? Because anti-Americanism provides a useful emotional function which goes beyond logic and reaches deep into the darker recesses of the European soul. In centuries past those on the Left who wished to personalise their hatred of capitalism, who sought to make it emotionally resonant by fastening an envious political passion on to a blameless scapegoat people, embraced anti-Semitism. It was the socialism of fools. Which is what anti-Americanism is now.
Michael Gove / British Politician
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Passion
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