Theresa May
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.Collection: Relationship
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.Collection: Travel
I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.Collection: Anger
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.Collection: Failure
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.Collection: Trust
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.Collection: Pet
The Government cannot just be consumed by Brexit. There is so much more to do.Collection: Government
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.Collection: Government
Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.Collection: Politics
You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.Collection: Legal
I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England.
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.
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.
If you can speak English, and you can get a place on a proper course at a proper university, you can come to study in Britain.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.
Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.
Now there is a growing feeling, it's something that David Cameron led on actually, he said this some time ago, that MPs should not be voting on their own pay.
Look, we constantly live looking at the issue of the threat of terrorism.
So we mustn't lower our guard in any sense because of what has happened in terms of the death of Osama Bin Laden and we are certainly not doing that. The terror threat level here in the U.K. remains at severe and we're very conscious of the need to continue that.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
There must be no attempts to remain inside the E.U., no attempts to rejoin it through the back door, and no second referendum.
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.
We need a bold, new, positive vision for the future of our country.
Sometimes, things you wish had happened don't, or there are things you wish you'd been able to do but can't.
We are all different. We all have different circumstances, and you have to cope with whatever it is, try not to dwell on things.
We will talk to the CIFAS members, financial institutions, about the possibility of closing accounts of people who have no right to be here. If you're going to create a hostile environment for illegal migrants... access to financial services is part of that.
I get cross about 13 years of Labour government that brought the country to the state it did.
I've always championed women in politics. We just get stuck in; politics isn't a game. The decisions we make affect people's lives, and that is something we must all keep to the forefront of our minds.
I'm very fortunate. My husband is hugely supportive, and he is very happy getting on with his career.
If, before 2020, there is a choice between further spending cuts, more borrowing and tax rises, the priority must be to avoid tax increases. They would disrupt consumption, employment and investment.
If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.
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.