Michael Gove Quotes

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.

Michael Gove

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• I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Live
  • Promise
  • Performance

• I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Live
  • Democracy
  • Care

• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.

  

  Harold Russell
  • Power
  • Democracy
  • Military

• Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.

  

  Walter Lang
  • God
  • Love
  • Promise

• I'm not always happy, I promise. I can be serious.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Happy
  • Always
  • Serious

• If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to re-ignite the promise of America.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Power

• What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

  

  Wade Davis
  • People
  • Children
  • Wisdom

• A lack of moral clarity is also the tragedy that has befallen efforts to advance peace and security in the world. Promoting peace and security is fundamentally connected to promoting freedom and democracy.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• If you have reservations about the system and want to change it, the democratic argument goes, do so within the system: put yourself forward as a candidate for political office, subject yourself to the scrutiny and the vote of fellow citizens. Democracy does not allow for politics outside the democratic system. In this sense, democracy is totalitarian.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Political
  • Democracy

• Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Free
  • Democracy

• 'We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.'

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Why
  • War
  • Democracy

• It really scared me to do what Mom did because I never did anything that she did. I promised her that I would never sing her songs, and I kept my promise. 'You sing them better than anybody. I don't want to be a second-rate example of you. I want to be a first-rate example of myself.'

  

  Liza Minnelli
  • She
  • Mom
  • Promise

• Parents – especially step-parents – are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fufill the promise of their early years.

  

  Anthony Powell
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Promise

• Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have their 'Giving Pledge,' where billionaires promise to give away the majority of their wealth when they die. My Social Security Pledge is better - to give money to good causes when you are alive. Besides, more Americans can participate.

  

  Mark Skousen
  • Good
  • Money
  • Giving

• When courts rule in our country, we have them as the final arbiter on matters in which we might not agree on. And that is an important pillar of our democracy.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Important
  • Country
  • Democracy

• I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.

  Chaka Fattah
  • People
  • Work
  • Risk

• Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days!

  

  Charles Atlas
  • Tired
  • Promise

• Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Honor
  • Promise
  • Regard

• I believe this country was built on a simple promise: that each of us deserves a fair shot.

  

  Joseph P. Kennedy III
  • Country
  • Promise
  • Shot

• If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting to his readers, he will have learned far more than he can ever learn from the constant presentation of crises.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • People
  • Writer
  • Studies

• 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.

  

  Michael Gove
  • Democracy
  • Promise
  • Supremacy