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" We can bring immigration down to sustainable levels. "
Theresa May
Immigration
Down
Sustainable
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" And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their police officers to the greatest effect to ensure that they're able to do the job that the public want them to do. "
Theresa May
Decisions
Within
Police
" It is essential to democracy that the elected representatives of the people make the laws that govern this country - and not the judges. "
Theresa May
Judges
People
Laws
" 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. "
Theresa May
Financial
People
You
" 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. "
Theresa May
People
Power
Doing
" Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality. "
Theresa May
Pathway
Behaviour
Still
" I get cross about 13 years of Labour government that brought the country to the state it did. "
Theresa May
Get
Years
Government
" So we mustn't lower our guard in any sense because of what has happened in terms of the death of Osama Bin Laden and we are certainly not doing that. The terror threat level here in the U.K. remains at severe and we're very conscious of the need to continue that. "
Theresa May
Death
Here
Need
" 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
" 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? "
Theresa May
Right
Rights
New
" I believe it's important that we ensure that the police have a modern and flexible workforce. I think that's what is necessary, so that they can provide the public with the service that they want. "
Theresa May
Believe
Want
Think
" One girl subjected to FGM or forces to marry is one girl too many. "
Theresa May
Many
Forces
Too
" Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy. "
Theresa May
Police
Moment
Today
" 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. "
Theresa May
You
Feel
Think
" 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. "
Theresa May
Game
Decisions
Women
" Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid. "
Theresa May
Immigration
People
Wages
" We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought. "
Theresa May
Decisions
Going
Government
" 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. "
Theresa May
Far Away
Away
Place
" Targets don't fight crime. "
Theresa May
Targets
Fight
Crime
" I want a counter-terrorism regime that is proportionate, focused and transparent. "
Theresa May
Want
Transparent
Regime
" The Government cannot just be consumed by Brexit. There is so much more to do. "
Theresa May
Government
Just
Just Be
" Within the E.U., in a wider context, people are increasingly recognising the need to prevent the abuse of free movement. "
Theresa May
Need
Free
People
" I am a great admirer of most of the judges in Britain. "
Theresa May
Am
Great
I Am
" 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
" 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
" Reducing net E.U. migration need not mean undermining the principle of free movement. When it was first enshrined, free movement meant the freedom to move to a job, not the freedom to cross borders to look for work or claim benefits. "
Theresa May
Freedom
Free
Need
" Now there is a growing feeling, it's something that David Cameron led on actually, he said this some time ago, that MPs should not be voting on their own pay. "
Theresa May
Said
Voting
Feeling
" Sometimes, things you wish had happened don't, or there are things you wish you'd been able to do but can't. "
Theresa May
Able
You
Wish
" 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. "
Theresa May
Health
Mental Health
Job
" Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police. "
Theresa May
Home
Review
Just
" 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. "
Theresa May
Start
Trade
Progress