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" It is essential to democracy that the elected representatives of the people make the laws that govern this country - and not the judges. "

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

" 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. "

" Targets don't fight crime. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We know of officers who develop inappropriate relationships with victims of domestic abuse. They have ignored their professional duty and their moral responsibility. "

" 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. "

" Nobody wins when the police are sent to look after people suffering from mental health problems; vulnerable people don't get the care they need and deserve, and the police can't get on with the job they are trained to do. "

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

" I'd personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it. "

" I've always championed women in politics. We just get stuck in; politics isn't a game. The decisions we make affect people's lives, and that is something we must all keep to the forefront of our minds. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It does not make sense that everybody should duplicate efforts when we could be working together. "

Working Together

" Tying money up for 40 years doesn't sound appealing when you are young. "

" 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. "

Working Together

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour. "

" 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. "

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

" National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties. "

" In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free. "

" 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. "

" 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? "