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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.

Michael Gove

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Michael Gove
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 26
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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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A coalition with Tories and Liberal Democrats together is a golden opportunity to create the sort of planning reform that means not only can we have more environmentally sensitive planning, but we can have more homes and more schools.
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Now that Britain has voted to leave, I think the country deserves to have a leader who believes in Britain outside the European Union and who also has experience at the highest level of government.
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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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They [British people] told us to restore democratic control of immigration policy and to spend their money on national priorities such as health, education and science instead of giving it to Brussels.
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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.
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Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you've never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding as being an adoptive parent.
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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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Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.
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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.
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I know what it's like to see someone lose their job as a result of the European Union. I saw my father lose his job, I saw his business go to the wall, I saw 24 people who he employed also lose their jobs.
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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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It was a tough choice [of PM]. I voted for a Scotsman.
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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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Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school.
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I will ensure we honour the instructions the British people have given us. I argued for specific changes in the referendum campaign, I believe in them, I will deliver them.
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I will do everything that is required in order to bring immigration down to a level that is manageable, that the public believe is right.
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If we are to make the most of the opportunities ahead we need a bold break with the past.
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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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