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" I am a great admirer of most of the judges in Britain. "
Theresa May
Am
Great
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" Prison works. "
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" We are mandating forces to hold regular neighbourhood beat meetings. These meetings will give local people the chance to scrutinise the work of their local police. "
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Meetings
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" I was looking at a photograph of the 1997 election campaign yesterday, and I thought: 'My God. Did I really have that hairstyle? And that Tory blue suit?' "
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Looking
God
Blue
" We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought. "
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Going
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" We are seeing, we have seen in the last figures a significant drop in the number of net migrants coming into the United Kingdom. So we are cutting out abuse, we've restricted the number of economic - non-EU economic migrants. We're cutting out abuse across the student visa system, particularly, and we're having an impact. "
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Seeing
" You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn't fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can't even speak the same language? "
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Children
School
" I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons. "
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People
Trust
Think
" My pitch is very simple. My name is Theresa May, and I think I'm the best person to be Prime Minister of this country. "
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Country
Best
Simple
" If you can speak English, and you can get a place on a proper course at a proper university, you can come to study in Britain. "
Theresa May
University
Speak
Study
" It does not make sense that everybody should duplicate efforts when we could be working together. "
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Together
Working Together
Working
" Sometimes, things you wish had happened don't, or there are things you wish you'd been able to do but can't. "
Theresa May
Able
You
Wish
" The right place for a person suffering a mental health crisis is a bed, not a police cell. And the right people to look after them are medically trained professionals, not police officers. "
Theresa May
Mental Health
People
Suffering
" The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that we're open for university students coming into the U.K. There's a job here not just for the government, I think there's a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open. "
Theresa May
Government
Job
People
" The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society. "
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Family
Relationship
Simple
" I'd personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it. "
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Problems
See
Think
" It is quite widely known that I like shoes. This is not something that defines me as either a woman or a politician, but it has come to define me in the eyes of the newspapers. I wore a pair of leopard-print kitten heels to a Conservative Party Conference a few years ago and the papers have continued to focus on my feet ever since. "
Theresa May
Me
Woman
Shoes
" I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free. "
Theresa May
Willing
Free
Going
" There must be no attempts to remain inside the E.U., no attempts to rejoin it through the back door, and no second referendum. "
Theresa May
Second
Through
Door
" I don't tour the TV studios. I don't gossip over lunch. I don't drink in Parliament's bars. I don't wear my heart on my sleeve. I just get on with the job in front of me. "
Theresa May
Gossip
Me
Lunch
" My whole philosophy is about doing, not talking. "
Theresa May
Philosophy
Not Talking
Doing
" Labour ministers often look puzzled when reports show that Britain has one of the lowest levels of social mobility in the developed world. They just don't get it. They see poverty, inequality, fairness, as all about income. For the past 12 years, they have relied on tax credits to solve this. But tax credits do not solve poverty: they mask it. "
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World
Look
Mask
" Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself. "
Theresa May
Know
Today
People
" If we are going to realise our ambition of ending the harmful practices of FGM and forced marriage, the role of young people in pushing for change is crucial. We also need to ensure that everyone, from government to civil society, is playing their part. "
Theresa May
Marriage
People
Society
" I completely understand why people are concerned about immigration. There's no silver bullet, no one thing you can do to suddenly deal with all the problems and concerns with immigration, and that includes leaving the E.U. "
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People
Problems
Why
" On gay adoption I have changed my mind. "
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Adoption
Changed
Gay
" A number of women have reportedly been victims of what appear to be discriminatory decisions taken by Sharia councils, and that is a significant concern. "
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Significant
Women
Number
" People feel that they're being required to meet all sorts of regulations and rules and requirements in their areas of work and MPs are not imposing those sort of restrictions on themselves. "
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People
Rules
Work
" We have the finest military personnel in the world. "
Theresa May
Finest
Personnel
Military
" I actually think I think better in high heels. "
Theresa May
Heels
Think
High Heels
" We will talk to the CIFAS members, financial institutions, about the possibility of closing accounts of people who have no right to be here. If you're going to create a hostile environment for illegal migrants... access to financial services is part of that. "
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Financial
People
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