No one fights with more principle and passion than Michael Gove.

Michael Gove is the right leader for the country ... He can speak out to the aspirational underdog in our society, the kid from the council estate.

[Michael] Gove will be the underdog fighting for the underdog in this leadership race.

I also think when it comes to delivering on Brexit, we need someone with a passion but also the mastery of the detail.

Boris [Johnson] was cavalier with assurances he made. We're picking a prime minister here to lead the country, not a school prefect.

Michael Gove is the right leader for the country.

Ultimately what is not needed now is recriminations.

We were striving and struggling not just for a dream ticket, but a dream team...

Putting together a really strong unifying team was an absolute condition. When that fell away, I think that Michael [Gove] felt things had changed.

I think that Michael [Gove] felt things had changed.

Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.

I'm so glad I didn't become a doctor, because I do more than any doctor can do. I am an administrator, a CEO, doctor, psychiatrist, an activist, a campaign funder. I think I did well.

I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

I haven't learned to be politically correct yet.

The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.

My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.

He was a 'how' thinker, not an 'if' thinker.

When I was alive, I mean the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war.” “Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler?

There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion, or devotion.

Were it not for gravity one man might hurl another by a puff of his breath into the depths of space, beyond recall for all eternity.