“Don't belittle the hurt that has been caused by the job-destroying mac...” — Michael Gove Quote

“Don't belittle the hurt that has been caused by the job-destroying machine that is the European Union.”

“Too many people go to university.”

“My parents adopted me, and then, by the age of four or five, I was asking all sorts of questions, and they found themselves with a son who was interested in the sorts of things that they valued but weren't natural to them.”

“I try, when I go into places, not to belittle what's gone before, because I know how difficult it is to manage, and everybody does it differently.”

“I don't think of myself as a leader. I am, but I don't think of myself that way. I'm not trying to belittle what I do, but I think of myself as a dancer first. I'll always be a dancer.”

“Not to belittle what we do as actors, but my wife Helen is a teacher, and she makes a real difference to kids. So it's unusual to see people thinking of us as something special.”