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" 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. "

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" We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers. "

Theresa May

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" 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. "

" Police reform is working, and crime is falling. "

" 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. "

" I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it's one of the most important institutions we have. "

" Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the job is that they are given a briefing about the security matters that they will be dealing with and I deal with security matters on a daily basis. "

" 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

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Shoes

" I think for voters what matters is the values that drive the government. "

" I grew up the daughter of a local vicar and the granddaughter of a regimental sergeant major. "

Theresa May

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Grew

" Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality. "

" In our fields, on our fishing vessels, in our factories and our homes, there are people deprived of their freedom and trapped in a life of unimaginable suffering. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed. "

" Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that's very positive. "

" Sometimes, things you wish had happened don't, or there are things you wish you'd been able to do but can't. "

" I want a counter-terrorism regime that is proportionate, focused and transparent. "

" We have the finest military personnel in the world. "

" 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. "

" Unfortunately, some judges evidently do not regard a debate in Parliament on new immigration rules, followed by the unanimous adoption of those rules, as evidence that Parliament actually wants to see those new rules implemented. "

" The U.K. courts were very clear that Abu Qatada posed a threat to our national security - that's why we were pleased as a government to be able to remove him from the United Kingdom. "

" I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency. "

" I was a teenage godmother. "

Theresa May

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" I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver. "

" We need to change attitudes. We can only change attitudes by working together. Government will do its bit, but I want you all to do your bit, too. So speak out, stand up against violence against women and girls, and that's the way we can eradicate it. "

" We are all different. We all have different circumstances, and you have to cope with whatever it is, try not to dwell on things. "

" Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on housing and public services is too great. "