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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. "
Theresa May
Class
Government
Leader
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" 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. "
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Free
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" Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on housing and public services is too great. "
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Stress
Great
" I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency. "
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" One girl subjected to FGM or forces to marry is one girl too many. "
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Too
" In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain. "
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Take
Pain
" 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. "
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Key
Prison
Want
" 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. "
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Rules
Work
" 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? "
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Challenges
Children
School
" 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? "
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Right
Rights
New
" The country voted to leave the European Union, and it is the duty of the Government and of Parliament to make sure we do just that. "
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Government
Leave
Country
" We need to change attitudes. We can only change attitudes by working together. Government will do its bit, but I want you all to do your bit, too. So speak out, stand up against violence against women and girls, and that's the way we can eradicate it. "
Theresa May
Speak
Women
Working Together
" 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
" Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes. "
Theresa May
Now
Help
World
" 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
" If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise. "
Theresa May
You
People
Family
" Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid. "
Theresa May
Immigration
People
Wages
" I have grown used to the focus on my clothes and my shoes. "
Theresa May
Grown
Clothes
Focus
" It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say. "
Theresa May
Interesting
Say
Experience
" A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this! "
Theresa May
Men
Women
Woke
" 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. "
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Significant
Women
Number
" 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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Time
Rid
Police
" People will be able to raise their concerns: what are local officers doing about the drug dealing in the local park? What's happening about the pub where all the trouble is? And the police will have to respond. "
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Police
People
Park
" 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
" 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. "
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Problems
Life
Failure
" 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
" I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free. "
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Willing
Free
Going
" 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
Want
Choice
People
" Police reform is working, and crime is falling. "
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Reform
Working
Falling
" I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it's one of the most important institutions we have. "
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Important
Marriage
I Believe
" 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