Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by Chris Grayling - Page 2

The vast majority of young people in Britain are law-abiding citizens making important contributions to their communities.

I think it's fair to set limits on housing benefit, so that people on welfare do not end up able to live in better areas than those doing the right thing by finding work.

We are a humane society, and one which believes that we have to help rehabilitate offenders so they turn away from crime.

If the law is wrong, it is for politicians to sort it out.

On our toughest estates, generations pass with the same experience of worklessness and educational failure.

Police on the street need the discretion to deal quickly and easily with routine misdemeanours which need to be recorded but need not take up court time - and where there is no doubt about guilt.

Britain has always been a nation with a strong global focus. We have influenced change and built strong ties all round the world.

Good health and safety really matters - we need to protect people against death and serious injury in the workplace.

Prison is not meant to be comfortable. It's not meant to be somewhere anyone would ever want to go back to.

I want to see prisoners getting support that is every bit as good as that which they would receive from the NHS in the community.

We have to take real steps to break down the culture of benefit dependency and failure which blights too many urban areas.

I think it's fair to set limits, so that people cannot receive more than the equivalent of the national average wage while living on benefits.

Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Leeds have successful financial services sectors. There are good universities there which provide great opportunities for local technological innovation. And there are strong multinational and family businesses.

When you talk to unemployed young people you hear one thing above all others - if you haven't got experience how can you get a job? But if you don't have a job, how can you get experience?

It is free enterprise and the determination to succeed which generates opportunity and wealth for our society, and in doing so provides the money we need to deliver the high quality public services that we all want.

The state has no right to cast people aside because they are sick or disabled.

An economic strategy built around hiking taxes for business means one thing: fewer jobs.

We need society, and particularly the victims of crime, to believe justice is being done.

Britain is a country of glass ceilings.

All too often, ambulance-chasing has been simple fraud. People are encouraged to launch a claim for whiplash when no one has been injured. Phone calls ask you to claim for accidents that never happened.

I think that far too often we let those who commit crimes in our society off far too lightly.

I have met virtually no one in the policing and security world who thinks ID cards are an essential part of what they need to do in the future.

It was in that uncertain world that the European Convention on Human Rights was shaped. Written by Conservatives, it set out the principles which should lie behind a modern democratic state, where human rights were respected.

European businesses will want to retain free-trade access to the U.K. - their biggest export market.

If you stop investing in a modern road system to give an unaffordable electoral bung to new voters, then the investors who could create great jobs for them will be doing so for the younger generation in another country instead.

All too often politicians sign treaties in a hurry, without reading them properly, and without understanding where they will lead.

Unlike Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party, I am not ideologically obsessed with the structure of our rail network; for me it is a matter of practicality.

Britain cannot afford to allow a culture of Left-wing-dominated, single-issue activism to hold back our country from investing in infrastructure and new sources of energy and from bringing down the cost of our welfare state.

The trouble with the SNP is they want power without responsibility. They do not want to take difficult decisions.

I'm very mindful of the need to ensure we have a criminal justice system in which people have confidence.

The typical prisoner has numerous brushes with the law before finally being sent behind bars. Each year thousands of cautions are issued to people who will come back to crime again.

Scotland is a great country. It's integral to the U.K.

We take back control of our laws and Britain will be a proud independent nation again.

No one would normally accuse me of being soft on crime.

The Human Rights Convention was written by Conservatives in the aftermath of the Second World War. It was designed to combat the risk of another Holocaust, and to try to stop people being sent to prison camps without trial.

The SNP talks a lot - but they have proved that they cannot deliver.

Britain has always been a good citizen in the world. We rightly provide a safe haven for people fleeing political persecution by brutal regimes. Our legal system is often seen as a beacon for the rest of the world, with people coming from all over to study it and embed its principles into their own systems.

Travel costs should not be a barrier to opportunity for our young people.

I want to be the Tough Justice Secretary.

During the late 1940s, Europe was a pretty bleak place.

The Conservative Party isn't electing a leader in opposition after losing a general election who can build up over five years and gain experience. We're electing somebody who's going to be our prime minister in two months' time, and that's why it's very important we have somebody with strong experience, who's good at working with the international community and can hit the ground running.

As somebody who campaigned to leave the EU, I believe we have a bright future ahead of us- but we have to get it right.

These internet trolls are cowards who are poisoning our national life. No-one would permit such venom in person, so there should be no place for it on social media.