Top 189 Quotes & Sayings by Michael Gove - Page 2

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.'

There wasn't a Scottish nationalist MP elected at any general election when we were outside the E.U.

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.

The people who are backing the Remain campaign are people who have done very well, thank you, out of the European Union.

The economic basis on which Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish nationalists made the case for separation was based on an oil price much higher than it is at the moment, so there will be no case for it.

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.

Don't belittle the hurt that has been caused by the job-destroying machine that is the European Union.

People should vote for democracy, and Britain should vote for hope.

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.

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.

Jamie Dimon and J.P. Morgan are contributing millions to the Remain campaign because they do very nicely, thank you, out of the E.U.

There are great things that Britain can do in the future as a progressive beacon. By voting Leave, we have that opportunity.

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.

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.

Anyone who's working in manufacturing here should know they will have increased opportunities if we leave the European Union.

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.

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

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.

If you vote to leave the E.U.... we will have additional flexibility to help industries who really need it.

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.

Barack Obama would never accept a court in Mexico decreeing what the law in the United States would be.

I don't think I'm a revolutionary, and I'd certainly be an unlikely one.

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.

I was very lucky in that I had a couple of teachers who were particularly supportive.

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.

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.

My judgment about what is right for this country will always guide me.

Ed Balls keeps saying that we are committed to scrapping the EMA. I have never said this. We won't.

Good schools should be left alone.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Conservative cabinet was called Hotel Cecil.

When we vote to leave, I think a majority of people in Scotland will also vote to leave as well.

I have a brother-in-law who lives in Spain.

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.

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.

One thing is undeniable. If we are going to continue to have support for migration, we need to be able to control the numbers.

The ability to choose who governs us, and the freedom to change laws we do not like, were secured for us in the past by radicals and liberals who took power from unaccountable elites and placed it in the hands of the people.

I prefer to take the view of businesspeople who are actually generating jobs and creating wealth.

We have, in the E.U., a market rigged in favour of the rich and stacked against the poor, and I think that's wrong.

I will do exactly as the Prime Minister asks me.

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

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.

I see education in the U.K. as a civil rights struggle.

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.

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.

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.

If events had taken a different course, I could have been one of those children going to a school without the sorts of opportunities that I've subsequently had.

I can't influence how other parties choose to vote.

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 want people to concentrate not on my job but on their jobs.

I believe that there are better opportunities to keep people safe if we are outside the European Union.

Making promises and then saddling yourself with a political system and a political union that means that you cannot deliver those promises, I fear, doesn't contribute to an atmosphere of trust and confidence in politics.

What I think is wrong is spending £9m of taxpayers' money on one particular piece of one-sided propaganda.

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.

One of the reasons why Australia and Canada have support for migration is because they control the numbers.

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

I wanted to put the national interest before my personal interests.

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.

I have specifically argued that we need to change our relationship with the European Union by fundamentally reforming not just our relationship but the European Union itself.

Scottish nationalism has grown since we entered the European Union.

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.