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Michael Gove
61 quotes
“The assumptions in that document were the product of work done then. We have a new government now, and under this new government we've been taking steps to make sure that we are properly prepared for exit on October 31.”
Michael Gove (born 1967) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Brexit: Michael Gove pledges to ensure traffic flows through ports BBC News (21 August 2019)
“I think that there are a number of economic factors in play. Some prices may go up. Other prices will come down.”
Michael Gove (born 1967) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Brexit: NI retailers challenge Michael Gove on no-deal food supply BBC News (1 September 2019)
“Businesses in Northern Ireland have the opportunity to enjoy the best of both worlds: access to the , because there's no infrastructure on the Island of Ireland, and at the same time unfettered access to the rest of the UK market.”
Michael Gove (born 1967) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed by ITV News after agreeing in principle to withdraw law-breaking clauses in the (8 December 2020)
“We're committed to maintaining our policy of ensuring that by 2030 there are no new petrol and diesel cars being sold. I'm sure there are some people who would like to change that policy, I understand. But that policy remains.”
Michael Gove (born 1967) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed on Today (BBC Radio 4, 25 July 2023), as cited in "2030 ban on new petrol car sales is immovable, insists Gove" The Independent (25 July 2023)
“It's important that the Government does press ahead with appropriate and thoughtful steps in order to safeguard the environment but there are some specific areas where the cost that is being imposed on individuals risks creating a backlash. [...] We don't want to get to a situation where the support for improving our environment curdles and turns into resistance.”
Michael Gove (born 1967) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed on Times Radio, (25 July 2023), as cited in "2030 ban on new petrol car sales is immovable, insists Gove" The Independent (25 July 2023)
“[On government ministers falling out with "special interest" groups] Very few health secretaries are going to be toasted by doctors, very few educational secretaries are going to get apples from teachers and very few secretary of states in this role are going to get Fortnum & Mason hampers sent to them by the Home Builders Federation.”
Michael Gove (born 1967) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From an interview, as cited in "Michael Gove: I’ll take planning powers off councils if I have to", The Times (18 December 2023)
“It is, perhaps, hard to imagine a collaboration between Virgil and Captain W.E. Johns, a fusion of the Aeneid and Biggles Pulls It Off, but that is how Boris Johnson’s memoir reads.”
Michael Gove (born 1967) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Politics as Ripping Yarns: the breathless brio of Boris Johnson’s memoir", The Spectator (12 October 2024)
“The reality of Christian mission in today’s churches is a story of thousands of quiet kindnesses. In many of our most disadvantaged communities it is the churches that provide warmth, food, friendship and support for individuals who have fallen on the worst of times. The homeless, those in the grip of alcoholism or drug addiction, individuals with undiagnosed mental health problems and those overwhelmed by multiple crises are all helped — in innumerable ways — by Christians. Churches provide debt counselling, marriage guidance, childcare, English language lessons, after-school clubs, food banks, emergency accommodation and, sometimes most importantly of all, someone to listen. The lives of most clergy and the thoughts of most churchgoers are not occupied with agonising over sexual morality but with helping others in practical ways — in proving their commitment to Christ through service to others.”
Michael Gove (born 1967) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In defence of Christianity", The Spectator (4 April 2015)
“Gove: I think the people in this country have had enough of experts, with organisations from acronyms, saying— Interviewer: They've had enough of experts? The people have had enough of experts? What do you mean by that? Gove: People from organisations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong. Inteviewer: The people of this country have had enough of experts? Gove: Because these people are the same ones who got consistently wrong what was happening. Interviewer: This is proper Trump politics this, isn't it? Gove: No it's actually a faith in the— Inteviewer: It's Oxbridge Trump. Gove: It's a faith, Faisal, in the British people to make the right decision.”
Michael Gove (born 1967) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Faisal Islam on Sky News (3 June 2016)
“I did almost everything not to be a candidate for the leadership of this party. I was so very reluctant because I know my limitations. Whatever charisma is, I don't have it. Whatever glamour may be, I don't think anyone could ever associate me with it. I am standing for the leadership not as a result of calculation; I am standing with the burning desire to transform our country. Because my heart tells me that if we are bold, if we refuse to settle for business as usual, if we dare to dream and summon up all the qualities that have made this country the greatest in the world, then for Britain - and its people - our best days lie ahead.”
Michael Gove (born 1967) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tory leadership: Gove 'standing out of conviction not ambition'", BBC News (1 July 2016)
“I took drugs on several occasions at social events more than 20 years ago. At the time I was a young journalist. It was a mistake. I look back and I think I wish I hadn't done that. I think all politicians have lives before politics. Certainly when I was working as a journalist I didn't imagine I would go into politics or public service. I didn't act with an eye to that. The question now is that people should look at my record as a politician and ask themselves, 'Is this person we see ready to lead now?' I have seen the damage drugs can do to others and that is why I deeply regret the decisions I took,”
Michael Gove (born 1967) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Michael Gove: Cocaine 'mistake' a 'deep regret', BBC News, 8 June 2019