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I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals.

Michael Gove

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Michael Gove
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 26
British Politician
Journalist
Judge
Politician
Writer
Edinburgh
Scotland
Michael Andrew Gove
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The promise to leave the European Union, end the supremacy of EU law and take back control of our democracy. With my leadership, it will be delivered.
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Whoever the next prime minister of this country will be, it will be a female prime minister and a female prime minister who has formidable skills and I know whichever one of the two wins they will lead this country well.
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I remember my mum explaining to me what adoption meant when I was still at primary school. 'Son,' she said to me, 'you didn't grow under my heart, you grew in it'.
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I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood, ready to pick me up when I fell and support me when I stumbled.
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We need to face the fact that we need more money in order to deliver Jeremy Hunt's absolutely correct drive to guarantee even better standards of care.
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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.
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In order to be able to reduce migration we need to be outside the European Union.
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The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
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I have come, reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris [Johnson] cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead.
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It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.
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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?'
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There are huge challenges ahead for this country but also huge opportunities. We can make this country stronger and fairer.
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In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.
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I will put my heart and soul into making sure that the care your son or daughter or mum or dad receives is the same I would want for my own family.
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It was a tough choice [of PM]. I voted for a Scotsman.
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If we leave the European Union, yes there will be bumps in the road, inevitably, but we will be in a better position to deal with them.
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Let me first of all congratulate both of the candidates who have made it through - both Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom are formidable politicians and they have fought great campaigns and they deserve to be in the final two.
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Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing job.
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With the single exception of Park Lane, every north-south route in London slows traffic to the pace of a wounded gnat with pleurisy struggling with a squaddie's backpack.
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One of reasons I was able to go to university was because of the sacrifices my family made.
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