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
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
Whether we vote to leave or remain, there are risks to our future; there are challenges in the global economy. – Michael Gove
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
One thing is undeniable. If we are going to continue to have support for migration, we need to be able to control the numbers. – Michael Gove
I believe that the decisions which govern all our lives, the laws we must all obey, and the taxes we must all pay should be decided by people we choose and who we can throw out if we want change. – Michael Gove
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
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. – Michael Gove
I can’t foretell the future, but I don’t believe that the act of leaving the European Union would make our economic position worse; I think it would make it better. – Michael Gove
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
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
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
The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war. – Michael Gove
Barack Obama would never accept a court in Mexico decreeing what the law in the United States would be. – Michael Gove
Ed Balls keeps saying that we are committed to scrapping the EMA. I have never said this. We won’t. – Michael Gove
If you vote to leave the E.U…. we will have additional flexibility to help industries who really need it. – Michael Gove
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
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
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
You wouldn’t tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child’s birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom? – Michael Gove
Democratic self-government has manifestly brought benefits to India, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, South Africa, South Korea, and scores of nations all making their way in the world. – Michael Gove
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
I absolutely haven’t set out to burnish a reputation as a macho figure by picking fights. – Michael Gove
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
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
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
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. – Michael Gove
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
