- You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.
- Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality.
- On gay adoption I have changed my mind.
- The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration.
- 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!
- 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.
- Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1,000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can't be right.
- In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.
- I'd personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it.
- 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.
- Obviously local people will have their local voice through the police and crime commissioners that they've elected to determine their local policing.
- I'm not sure I should reveal the sources of my clothes.
- 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.
- The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that we're open for university students coming into the U.K. There's a job here not just for the government, I think there's a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open.
- There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.
- I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.
- I was looking at a photograph of the 1997 election campaign yesterday, and I thought: 'My God. Did I really have that hairstyle? And that Tory blue suit?'
- 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.
- 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?
- Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.
- I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.
- Targets don't fight crime.
- Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.
- 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.
- 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.
- The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.
- I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it's one of the most important institutions we have.
- I was a teenage godmother.
- 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.
- Local people do want to see more police on the streets.
- If the police need more help to do their work, I will not hesitate in granting it to them.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
- 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.
- For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.
- Within the E.U., in a wider context, people are increasingly recognising the need to prevent the abuse of free movement.
- 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.
- Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.
- Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police.
- 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.
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