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" Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself. "
Theresa May
Know
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People
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Leader
" There is only one rule of law in our country, which provides rights and security for every citizen. "
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Law
" 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. "
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" 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
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Life
Failure
" 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. "
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" Local people do want to see more police on the streets. "
Theresa May
See
People
Want
" People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they're going to travel. "
Theresa May
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Choice
People
" 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
" One girl subjected to FGM or forces to marry is one girl too many. "
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Many
Forces
Too
" 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
" 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. "
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See
People
Important
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible. "
Theresa May
Cookbook
Will
House
" We are all different. We all have different circumstances, and you have to cope with whatever it is, try not to dwell on things. "
Theresa May
Try
Things
Dwell
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Theresa May
World
Look
Mask
" 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. "
Theresa May
Significant
Women
Number
" 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 have grown used to the focus on my clothes and my shoes. "
Theresa May
Grown
Clothes
Focus
" I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it's one of the most important institutions we have. "
Theresa May
Important
Marriage
I Believe
" I've been clear that Brexit means Brexit. "
Theresa May
Brexit
Means
Clear
" I actually think I think better in high heels. "
Theresa May
Heels
Think
High Heels
" 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
" 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. "
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Start
Trade
Progress
" I think for voters what matters is the values that drive the government. "
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Drive
Government
Think
" For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them. "
Theresa May
Matters
Government
Voters