Theresa May famous quotes

Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.
-- Theresa May

#People #Wages #Benefits

On gay adoption I have changed my mind.
-- Theresa May

#Gay #Adoption #Mind

You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.
-- Theresa May

#Problem #Inequality #Solve

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

#Party #Eye #Years

I was a teenage godmother.
-- Theresa May

#Teenage #Godmother

I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.
-- Theresa May

#Cutting #Waste #Efficiency

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

#House #Cooking #Cookbook

I'd personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it.
-- Theresa May

#Thinking #Rights #Problem

In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.
-- Theresa May

#Pain #Tough Times #Tough

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.
-- Theresa May

#Anger #Issues #Feels

I want a counter-terrorism regime that is proportionate, focused and transparent.
-- Theresa May

#Want #Terrorism #Regimes

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

#Thinking #People #Politician

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

#Jobs #Thinking #Important

I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it's one of the most important institutions we have.
-- Theresa May

#Believe #Important #Institutions

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 #Issues #Hey

Local people do want to see more police on the streets.
-- Theresa May

#People #Police #Want

You don't think about it at the time, but there are certain responsibilities that come with being the vicar's daughter. You're supposed to behave in a particular way. I shouldn't say it, but I probably was Goody Two Shoes.
-- Theresa May

#Mother #Daughter #Responsibility

When you first come into Parliament, it's a daunting place because you feel you've so much to learn. Once you've been re-elected, you feel much more confident. It just gives you a bit of a boost.
-- Theresa May

#Giving #Firsts #Boost

What is absolutely clear is that we have, with the U.S., an extradition treaty which is important, I believe it is an important treaty, for both sides, the United States and the United Kingdom. It is a treaty that I believe is balanced and we work on that basis.
-- Theresa May

#Believe #Important #Kingdoms

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

#Cutting #Numbers #Impact

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

#Nice #Shoes #Saws

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

#Children #Benefits

Starting with the highest-risk countries, and focusing on the route to Britain that is widely abused, student visas, we will increase the number of interviews to considerably more than 100,000, starting next financial year. From there, we will extend the interviewing programme further across all routes to Britain, wherever the evidence takes us.
-- Theresa May

#Country #Years #Numbers

Tying money up for 40 years doesn't sound appealing when you are young,
-- Theresa May

#Years #Sound #Young

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

#Thinking #Issues #Police

We are mandating forces to hold regular neighbourhood beat meetings. These meetings will give local people the chance to scrutinise the work of their local police
-- Theresa May

#Giving #People #Police

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

#Jobs #Decision #Police

I'm sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong.
-- Theresa May

#Tired #Government #Sick

We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.
-- Theresa May

#Cat #Rights #Pet

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
-- Theresa May

#People #Police #Drug

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

#Government #Decision #Facts

Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can't be right
-- Theresa May

#Simple #Justice #Steps

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
-- Theresa May

#Numbers #What Matters #People

There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.
-- Theresa May

#Behaviour #Crime #Social

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.
-- Theresa May

#People #Able #Becoming

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

#Journey #People #Choices

Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.
-- Theresa May

#Snakes #Indiana #Might

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 #Office #Police

I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.
-- Theresa May

#Risk #Succeed #Plot

I'm not sure I should reveal the sources of my clothes.
-- Theresa May

#Clothes #Should #Source

I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England.
-- Theresa May

#Mother #Daughter #Church

For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.
-- Theresa May

#What Matters #Government #Voters

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

#Police #Fighter #Crime

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
-- Theresa May

#Erosion #Government #Liberty

Targets don't fight crime.
-- Theresa May

#Fighting #Target #Crime

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

#Past #Expectations #People

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

#Mps #People #Regulation

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

#Jobs #Home #Matter

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 #Thinking #Police

I am willing to consider powers which would ban known hooligans from rallies and marches and I will look into the powers the police already have to force the removal of face coverings and balaclavas.
-- Theresa May

#Police #Covering #Looks

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

#Country #Technology #Track

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.
-- Theresa May

#Stress #People #Community

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

#Mean #Years #Police

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

#Retirement #Children #Moving

Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality.
-- Theresa May

#Community #Behaviour #Wrecks