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    Michael Gove

    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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    Michael Gove

    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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    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.

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    Michael Gove

    Because my parents took a risk on me not knowing a thing about me.They believed that in everyone there is potential - that by believing in someone, loving them, nurturing them, you can bring out that potential.

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    Michael Gove

    Boris Johnson is a man of great attributes and great qualities.

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    Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.

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    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.

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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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    For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek

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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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    I am delighted by the support I have received from colleagues. It reflects the optimistic message that I've been putting forward.

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    Michael Gove

    I believed we needed someone who would be able to build a team, lead and unite. I hoped that person would be Boris Johnson.

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    I felt we needed someone to lead this country who believed heart and soul in leaving the European Union.

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    If I'm the British prime minister I won't be dictated to on the timetable or the manner of the negotiations.

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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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    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 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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    Michael Gove

    I hope that in the days to come, I'll be able to convince my colleagues that I should be one of the candidates that Conservative party members can choose from.

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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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    I'll negotiate with toughness, and with great attention to detail to get the best possible deal for Britain. It's only when we are outside the European Union that we can at last bring those numbers [of migrants] under control in the way that the public want.

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    Michael Gove

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

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    In order to be able to reduce migration we need to be outside the European Union.

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    Michael Gove

    I notice that the number of cosmetic-surgery operations has risen by 34 per cent in the past year. Once we subtract Jordan, Jodie Marsh and Michael Jackson from those figures, we can see that demand overall may have stabilised.

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    In particular, I wanted to help build a team behind Boris Johnson so that a politician who argued for leaving the European Union could lead us to a better future.

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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 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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    Michael Gove

    I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.

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    I think that the message I have of optimism and hope about Britain's bright future outside the European Union is shared by many Conservative members and voters - indeed by a majority of the country.

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    I think that what we have heard from the Remain campaign throughout this whole referendum have been dire warnings of the terrible consequences of the British people just taking control of our own destiny.And, the truth is, if we vote to Leave we will be in an economically stronger position. We will be able to take back some of the money that we currently give to the European Union and we can invest it in our priorities.

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    Michael Gove

    It is a belief in human potential that has guided me through my time in 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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    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.

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    It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

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    It was a tough choice [of PM]. I voted for a Scotsman.

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    I want there to be an open and positive debate about the path the country will now take. Whatever the verdict of that debate I will respect it.

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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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    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 lay out my plan for the United Kingdom, which I hope can provide unity and change.

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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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    I will take all the steps necessary to give the NHS at least another £100million per week by 2020.

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    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.

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    Michael Gove

    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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    Many more schools can be outstanding.

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    My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy.

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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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    One of reasons I was able to go to university was because of the sacrifices my family made.

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    One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists, to experts in coding and to young people about.

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    Michael Gove

    One of the things I know about the European Union is that the European Union can destroy jobs.

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    Our most important public service will always be the NHS. And I want to say something clear and unambiguous about the future of the health service.