Michael Gove Quotes

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Michael Gove

Profession : Politician

Birth : August 26, 1967

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.

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There are economic risks if we leave, economic risks if we remain.

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I don't think there will be a recession as a result of a vote to leave.

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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.

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I am on the side of the people.

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Too many people go to university.

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The reason why I'm in Parliament is not really to see my colleagues win power; it is to see us at last in a position where we can give it up.

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Life would have been easier for me if I had taken the path of least resistance.

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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.

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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.

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I just think it is entirely normal for the United Kingdom to be an independent nation state.

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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.

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