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" 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
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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
Problems
Life
Failure
" 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
" 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? "
Theresa May
Challenges
Children
School
" 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
" 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 think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons. "
Theresa May
People
Trust
Think
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free. "
Theresa May
Willing
Free
Going
" 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
" In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain. "
Theresa May
Tough
Take
Pain
" Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid. "
Theresa May
Immigration
People
Wages
" 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
" 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 Government cannot just be consumed by Brexit. There is so much more to do. "
Theresa May
Government
Just
Just Be
" I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues. "
Theresa May
Feels
Anger
Someone
" 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
" 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
" My whole philosophy is about doing, not talking. "
Theresa May
Philosophy
Not Talking
Doing
" 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. "
Theresa May
Giving
Week
People
" I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics. "
Theresa May
Politics
Nice
Lady
" 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
" Prison works. "
Theresa May
Works
Prison
" I have grown used to the focus on my clothes and my shoes. "
Theresa May
Grown
Clothes
Focus
" I'm very fortunate. My husband is hugely supportive, and he is very happy getting on with his career. "
Theresa May
Happy
Supportive
Husband
" You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause. "
Theresa May
You
Inequality
Problem
" It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say. "
Theresa May
Interesting
Say
Experience
" 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. "
Theresa May
Talk
Look
Think
" Police reform is working, and crime is falling. "
Theresa May
Reform
Working
Falling