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" I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England. "
Theresa May
Daughter
Still
Church
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" 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
" There is only one rule of law in our country, which provides rights and security for every citizen. "
Theresa May
Our
Country
Law
" If, before 2020, there is a choice between further spending cuts, more borrowing and tax rises, the priority must be to avoid tax increases. They would disrupt consumption, employment and investment. "
Theresa May
Tax
Avoid
Choice
" Our laws must protect victims. "
Theresa May
Victims
Laws
Our
" The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration. "
Theresa May
Aim
Migration
Environment
" 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
" 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. "
Theresa May
Decisions
Going
Government
" Targets don't fight crime. "
Theresa May
Targets
Fight
Crime
" What we're also doing is helping police forces in terms of issues like procurement and IT, so that savings can be made in those areas which I think is the sort of thing that everybody is going to want us to be doing. "
Theresa May
Going
Doing
Think
" I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics. "
Theresa May
Politics
Nice
Lady
" The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time. "
Theresa May
Doing
Changing
Child
" It is essential to democracy that the elected representatives of the people make the laws that govern this country - and not the judges. "
Theresa May
Judges
People
Laws
" I am a great admirer of most of the judges in Britain. "
Theresa May
Am
Great
I Am
" I've been clear that Brexit means Brexit. "
Theresa May
Brexit
Means
Clear
" We can bring immigration down to sustainable levels. "
Theresa May
Immigration
Down
Sustainable
" Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid. "
Theresa May
Immigration
People
Wages
" Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it's about work. "
Theresa May
Problems
Life
Failure
" I believe it's important that we ensure that the police have a modern and flexible workforce. I think that's what is necessary, so that they can provide the public with the service that they want. "
Theresa May
Believe
Want
Think
" 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. "
Theresa May
People
Rules
Work
" It is very important that people see there is a bright future, and we can re-engage that entrepreneurial spirit of the trading nation for which the U.K. has always been known - that dynamic, creative spirit. "
Theresa May
See
People
Important
" 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
" Police reform is working, and crime is falling. "
Theresa May
Reform
Working
Falling
" We are all different. We all have different circumstances, and you have to cope with whatever it is, try not to dwell on things. "
Theresa May
Try
Things
Dwell
" 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. "
Theresa May
Last
Abuse
Seeing
" It is not possible to debate the balance between privacy and security, including the rights and wrongs of intrusive powers, without also understanding the threats. "
Theresa May
Debate
Security
Understanding
" Local people do want to see more police on the streets. "
Theresa May
See
People
Want
" I'd personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it. "
Theresa May
Problems
See
Think
" Shortly after the appointment of Britain's first-ever female police constable with officials powers of arrest, the Home Office declared that women could not be sworn in as police officers because they were not deemed 'proper persons'. It makes you wonder what those Home Office officials would say now to having a female Home Secretary. "
Theresa May
Wonder
Women
Say
" We need a bold, new, positive vision for the future of our country. "
Theresa May
Need
Bold
Future
" Reducing net E.U. migration need not mean undermining the principle of free movement. When it was first enshrined, free movement meant the freedom to move to a job, not the freedom to cross borders to look for work or claim benefits. "
Theresa May
Freedom
Free
Need