Michael Gove Quotes

I would like a UK fully engaged in Europe, but I can't decide in place of the British. I see that for the moment they want to be more in retreat.

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.

The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe.

We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice.

I don't want to leave euro or leave the European Union.

Having spent six years as Europe Minister, I am in no doubt about the technical challenge Brexit presents lawmakers.

Very few MPs disagree with the need for a withdrawal bill to enable us to disentangle our 50-year relationship with the legal structures of the European Union and to enable us to function effectively outside of it.

If the U.K. wants to leave the E.U., we need to stay in the single market.

The U.K. matters with or without being a member of the E.U.

I would wish for more British involvement in Europe, not less.

I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.

The EU is an English-speaking power. The single market was a British idea…. If you refuse please don’t expect us to help you wreck or paralyze the EU.

We believe that from both a German and a Polish perspective, it is desirable for Great Britain to remain in the European Union.

Leaving the E.U. would mean the 'Guernseyfication' of the U.K., which would then be a little country on the world scale. It would isolate itself and become a trading post and arbitration place at Europe's border.

Britain's destiny lies in Europe.

I think us leaving would have an enormous and bad effect on the rest of the EU. The EU would respond by deepening integration and becoming more of a 'political project'. It would not only be damaging ourselves but also the kind of Europe we want.

However painful or regrettable Brexit may be, it will not stop the E.U. as it moves to the future; we need to move forward.

Brexit has really broken a taboo. The Brits have shown us that you can leave the European Union, and you can come out better.

Being in the European Union has its advantages, and I think that is what the British are beginning to understand, what those who are tempted by the Brexit are going to reflect upon.

There is no doubt that our government is pro-European.

When we were told Brexit meant taking back powers for Parliament, no one told my constituents this meant the French parliament and the German parliament, not our own.

The U.K. has always had a special relationship with the E.U.

What I would rather see, what I think would be the best outcome, is a very close relationship between the United Kingdom and the E.U.

The U.K. is leaving the E.U. but not Europe.

If we have Brexit, we don't know what we will get.