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.

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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

• Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contributing to an unnecessary mass hysteria.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Democracy
  • Media
  • Sure

• 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

• I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe in democracy.

  

  Coretta Scott King
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Free

• 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

• Since the Bush-Cheney Administration took office in January 2001, controlling the major oil and natural gas fields of the world had been the primary, though undeclared, priority of US foreign policy... Not only the invasion of Iraq, but also the toppling of the Taliban in Afghanistan, had nothing to do with 'democracy,' and everything to do with pipeline control across Central Asia and the militarization of the Middle East.

  

  F. William Engdahl
  • Democracy
  • Administration
  • Afghanistan

• I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Opportunity
  • Know
  • Play

• We live in an emotionally fragile culture. We are in touch with every hurt past, present, and perceived. We are the walking wounded, and we want everyone to know.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • Live
  • Past
  • Culture

• Even in relationships, I don't get my hopes up or anything, especially not right now because I know I'm young and I've got plenty of time later in the future.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Up
  • Time
  • Future

• I think it's amazing to have one writer write every episode of a series. It's very rare, I think. You get a voice that continues.

  

  Harry Treadaway
  • Writer
  • Series
  • Episodes

• 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