Michael Gove Quotes

Let's make it clear: the Conservative Party has no plans for new NHS charges.

The National Health Service is safe with us. The principle of adequate healthcare should be provided for all regardless of ability to pay must be the function of any arrangements for financing the NHS. We stand by that.

We will never privatise the National Health Service.

The NHS should be proactively using substantial resources across government to intervene and try to deliver positive improvements in people's standards of living.

We know, in Wales or in England - you simply can't trust Labour on the NHS. In England, we are delivering for patients while Labour just use the NHS as a political football. We won't let them; we'll always fight for the NHS.

The Health Service is the closest thing the English have to a religion.

I've been making the NHS's case that we need significant and sustainable funding increases to meet the demographic challenges we face, and the prime minister completely appreciates that.

I took for granted that we have free healthcare. But I have realised what the NHS does, and the people within it who keep it moving, the number of hours they are doing.

Our most important public service will always be the NHS. And I want to say something clear and unambiguous about the future of the health service.

If you, the citizen, deliberately vote for someone who won't give you healthcare over someone who will, you need to have your head examined. Except you can't afford to have your head examined.

I care more about getting this right [NHS reform] than I do about getting it done.

I'm Going To Make Available To Every American The Same Health Care Plan That Senators And Congressmen Give Themselves.

I am romantic about the NHS. I love it.

It is a statement to the obvious, however, that [Barack] Obama - of Obamacare - is the President of the United States, so I don't want people to have [unrealistic] expectations about what may actually become law with Obama - of Obamacare - in the White House. But we intend to keep our commitment to the American people.

I don't have time to beat around the bush. The health-care plan as proposed by Mrs. Clinton is socialism. There's no soft way to peddle it. There is not other way to describe it.

There is a growing consensus that the European systems have worked better than the American: They have been able to deliver better health care to more people at lower cost.

The Republican health care plan: don't get sick ... The Republicans have a back up plan in case you do get sick ... This is what the Republicans want you to do. If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly!

The market alone can't solve our health-care woes.

An example is ObamaCare, which is now embattled in the Senate. If that goes through the way [Barack] Obama wants, we will have something very much like the British system.

Health care is still the number-one issue out there. Someone who seizes it, I think, will do very well in an election. Let's face it: Clinton's two big issues were the middle class tax cut, which he dropped, wisely, at the time to help reduce the deficit, and health care. That's what he ran on.

Healthcare should be a human right and not a commodity for sale.

If I'm the godfather of [Obamacare], then it gives me the right to kill it.

After all, the same steps that reduce carbon pollution also clean the air we breathe, which saves lives and reduces disease.

Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?

The ObamaCare premiums, the numbers started moving away from Hillary Clinton he moment there was a problem with.