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" 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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" The Snowden leaks did cause damage. "

" Shortly after the appointment of Britain's first-ever female police constable with officials powers of arrest, the Home Office declared that women could not be sworn in as police officers because they were not deemed 'proper persons'. It makes you wonder what those Home Office officials would say now to having a female Home Secretary. "

" 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. "

" Our laws must protect victims. "

" There must be no attempts to remain inside the E.U., no attempts to rejoin it through the back door, and no second referendum. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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 have to ask ourselves, is it really right that the E.U. should just continue to expand, conferring upon all new member states all the rights of membership? "

" 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. "

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

" If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise. "

" 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. "

" The Government cannot just be consumed by Brexit. There is so much more to do. "

" 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. "

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

" On gay adoption I have changed my mind. "

" I'm not sure I should reveal the sources of my clothes. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "