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" 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
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" 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. "
Theresa May
Speak
Women
Working Together
" 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
" Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid. "
Theresa May
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People
Wages
" You don't think about it at the time, but there are certain responsibilities that come with being the vicar's daughter. You're supposed to behave in a particular way. I shouldn't say it, but I probably was Goody Two Shoes. "
Theresa May
Daughter
You
Say
" 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. "
Theresa May
Work
Meetings
People
" I think if you talk to anybody who would like to have had children... I mean, you look at families all the time and you see there is something there that you don't have. "
Theresa May
Talk
Look
Think
" 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
" There is only one rule of law in our country, which provides rights and security for every citizen. "
Theresa May
Our
Country
Law
" People will be able to raise their concerns: what are local officers doing about the drug dealing in the local park? What's happening about the pub where all the trouble is? And the police will have to respond. "
Theresa May
Police
People
Park
" It is all around us, hidden in plain sight. It is walking our streets, supplying shops and supermarkets, working in fields, factories or nail bars, trapped in brothels or cowering behind the curtains in an ordinary street: slavery. "
Theresa May
Slavery
Walking
Street
" I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England. "
Theresa May
Daughter
Still
Church
" 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
" Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that. "
Theresa May
Rules
People
Place
" 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
" What is absolutely clear is that we have, with the U.S., an extradition treaty which is important, I believe it is an important treaty, for both sides, the United States and the United Kingdom. It is a treaty that I believe is balanced and we work on that basis. "
Theresa May
Work
I Believe
Important
" So we mustn't lower our guard in any sense because of what has happened in terms of the death of Osama Bin Laden and we are certainly not doing that. The terror threat level here in the U.K. remains at severe and we're very conscious of the need to continue that. "
Theresa May
Death
Here
Need
" 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? "
Theresa May
Challenges
Children
School
" Retailers have an important part to play in preventing knife crime - enforcing age restrictions and displaying knives safely is crucial. "
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Important
Knife
Part
" I'm very fortunate. My husband is hugely supportive, and he is very happy getting on with his career. "
Theresa May
Happy
Supportive
Husband
" It does not make sense that everybody should duplicate efforts when we could be working together. "
Theresa May
Together
Working Together
Working
" We have the finest military personnel in the world. "
Theresa May
Finest
Personnel
Military
" 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. "
Theresa May
Class
Government
Leader
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I was a teenage godmother. "
Theresa May
Teenage
Godmother
" It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say. "
Theresa May
Interesting
Say
Experience
" I think for voters what matters is the values that drive the government. "
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Drive
Government
Think
" I've been clear that Brexit means Brexit. "
Theresa May
Brexit
Means
Clear
" Stop-and-search has the potential to cause immense resentment and honesty to the police, with all the implications that has for generating distrust and ending co-operation from the public, if it is not used fairly. "
Theresa May
Potential
Honesty
Ending