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" We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers. "

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" We have the finest military personnel in the world. "

" 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. "

" Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes. "

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" Prison works. "

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" 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 am a great admirer of most of the judges in Britain. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The key for members of the public is that they want criminals to be punished. They want them taken off the streets. They also want criminals who come out of prison to go straight. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We know of officers who develop inappropriate relationships with victims of domestic abuse. They have ignored their professional duty and their moral responsibility. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm very pleased to be recognising International Women's Day, a day that celebrates the achievements of women across the world. "

" My pitch is very simple. My name is Theresa May, and I think I'm the best person to be Prime Minister of this country. "

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" The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration. "

" We can bring immigration down to sustainable levels. "

" I grew up the daughter of a local vicar and the granddaughter of a regimental sergeant major. "

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" I was a teenage godmother. "