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" I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free. "
Theresa May
Willing
Free
Going
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" Targets don't fight crime. "
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Targets
Fight
Crime
" Now there is a growing feeling, it's something that David Cameron led on actually, he said this some time ago, that MPs should not be voting on their own pay. "
Theresa May
Said
Voting
Feeling
" A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this! "
Theresa May
Men
Women
Woke
" 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
" Well can I just make a point about the numbers because people talk a lot about police numbers as if police numbers are the holy grail. But actually what matters is what those police are doing. It's about how those police are deployed. "
Theresa May
Talk
Doing
Police
" 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
" I want a counter-terrorism regime that is proportionate, focused and transparent. "
Theresa May
Want
Transparent
Regime
" 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. "
Theresa May
Our
Fishing
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. "
Theresa May
Doing
Changing
Child
" 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. "
Theresa May
Significant
Women
Number
" 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
" I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible. "
Theresa May
Cookbook
Will
House
" 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
" People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they're going to travel. "
Theresa May
Want
Choice
People
" The right place for a terrorist is a prison cell; the right place for a foreign terrorist is a foreign prison cell far away from Britain. "
Theresa May
Far Away
Away
Place
" Our manifesto to the British people promised to finish the job of police reform. And that is exactly what I intend to do. "
Theresa May
Finish
British
Job
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Police reform is working, and crime is falling. "
Theresa May
Reform
Working
Falling
" 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. "
Theresa May
Why
Government
Him
" The Government cannot just be consumed by Brexit. There is so much more to do. "
Theresa May
Government
Just
Just Be
" I'm very pleased to be recognising International Women's Day, a day that celebrates the achievements of women across the world. "
Theresa May
International
World
Women
" I think for voters what matters is the values that drive the government. "
Theresa May
Drive
Government
Think
" 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. "
Theresa May
Daily
Security
Job
" The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration. "
Theresa May
Aim
Migration
Environment
" 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?' "
Theresa May
Looking
God
Blue
" What's important is that we do this in the right timescale to get the right deal for the U.K. We shouldn't invoke Article 50 immediately. "
Theresa May
Right
Article
Deal
" 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. "
Theresa May
Financial
People
You