It's the latest iteration of his attempts to dispel myths about the threat of cyberwarfare and focus Americans' fears where they should be rightly placed.
Much emphasis is often (rightly) placed on the importance of robust impact evaluation of public health interventions.
"Yarl's Wood is rightly a place of national concern," he said.
"Yarl's Wood is rightly a place of national concern," Nick Hardwick, Chief Inspector of Prisons in the UK, said in a statement sent to VICE News.
He is rightly keen to place his successes in context and to keep the hype under control, although he can do nothing about John McEnroe stating unequivocally on the USA network during his match that "Murray will be in the top 20 by this time next year".
The long full trial proceedings in the case of Lieutenant William Calley left no room for doubt that he did in fact kill many unresisting Vietnamese villagers at My Lai 4, or Son My, or whatever the place is rightly called, when he was an infantry platoon commander three years ago.
Everything is judged, and rightly placed: astonishing order.
Our failure to give any value to the last phase of life, our insistence on health and safety above all, has led to a dependence on care homes that are little more than parking places; Gawande is rightly scathing about a system that exists largely as a form of containment, where the temptation is to deal with people as if they are inconvenient.
Nonetheless, Gove's speech was important, rightly placing the environment at the heart of the nation's and the world's wellbeing, prosperity and security.
