Top 66 Michael Gove Quotes

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

The majority people in this country are suffering because of our membership of the E.U.

There is no prospect of any of us being able to kick out any of the presidents of Europe; they operate in a sphere and a realm well away from and out of reach of and out of touch with the people.

One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year.

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.

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

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

Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.

Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions.

Too many people go to university.

I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don’t think it solved anything. It only made the situation worse for everyone involved.

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.

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

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.

It’s critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn through play, master social skills and prepare for formal schooling.

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 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.

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.

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

When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they’d most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.

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.’

I think the people in this country have had enough of experts with organisations from acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong.

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.’

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.

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.

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

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.

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

You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more – if it were ‘Twilight’ or ‘Middlemarch?’

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 not asking the public to trust me; I’m asking the public to trust themselves.

In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won’t stop me trying.

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.

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.

Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.

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.

Scottish nationalism has grown since we entered the European Union.

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

I am in favour of migration; I simply want to control the numbers.

I will do exactly as the Prime Minister asks me.

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.

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.

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

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