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" 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. "

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" 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

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" I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues. "

" We need a bold, new, positive vision for the future of our country. "

" Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1,000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can't be right. "

" Let's start getting some free trade agreements started as soon as we can. We need to get on with it; we need to get a grip and make progress. "

" Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the 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

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" Retailers have an important part to play in preventing knife crime - enforcing age restrictions and displaying knives safely is crucial. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" On gay adoption I have changed my mind. "

" 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. "

" Poverty is not just about income: it's about aspiration. It's not just about giving people a couple of extra pounds a week, welcome though that is. "

" 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? "

" We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat. "

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

" My whole philosophy is about doing, not talking. "

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

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

" The country voted to leave the European Union, and it is the duty of the Government and of Parliament to make sure we do just that. "

" 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. "

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