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" 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
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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
" I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England. "
Theresa May
Daughter
Still
Church
" 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
" I completely understand why people are concerned about immigration. There's no silver bullet, no one thing you can do to suddenly deal with all the problems and concerns with immigration, and that includes leaving the E.U. "
Theresa May
People
Problems
Why
" 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've been clear that Brexit means Brexit. "
Theresa May
Brexit
Means
Clear
" You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause. "
Theresa May
You
Inequality
Problem
" Tax credits do not help people get better jobs; in fact, they can create poverty traps that actually disincentivise people from working more hours or finding a better paid job. "
Theresa May
Tax
Help
Better
" We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers. "
Theresa May
Time
Rid
Police
" I am willing to consider powers which would ban known hooligans from rallies and marches and I will look into the powers the police already have to force the removal of face coverings and balaclavas. "
Theresa May
Police
Will
I Am
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Many British people of different faiths follow religious codes and practices and benefit a great deal from the guidance they offer. "
Theresa May
Follow
British
People
" 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
" In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain. "
Theresa May
Tough
Take
Pain
" One girl subjected to FGM or forces to marry is one girl too many. "
Theresa May
Many
Forces
Too
" 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. "
Theresa May
Pet
I Am
Know
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Theresa May
Going
Doing
Think
" One area in which we can be certain mass immigration has an effect is housing. More than one third of all new housing demand in Britain is caused by immigration. And there is evidence that without the demand caused by mass immigration, house prices could be 10% lower over a 20-year period. "
Theresa May
House
Evidence
Immigration
" 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. "
Theresa May
Wonder
Women
Say
" 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
" Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality. "
Theresa May
Pathway
Behaviour
Still
" I'm very fortunate. My husband is hugely supportive, and he is very happy getting on with his career. "
Theresa May
Happy
Supportive
Husband
" 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
" Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that's very positive. "
Theresa May
Work
Women
Positive