Top 231 Quotes & Sayings by Theresa May
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British politician Theresa May.
Last updated on October 10, 2024.
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.
Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.
It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.
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.
In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.
The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration.
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.
You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.
There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.
Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality.
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.
The British people have spoken, and there will be a different future for the U.K. - different but a brighter, more optimistic future. We may have to go through some difficult times to get there, but get there we will.
I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.
I'd personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it.
On gay adoption I have changed my mind.
Within the E.U., in a wider context, people are increasingly recognising the need to prevent the abuse of free movement.
I want a counter-terrorism regime that is proportionate, focused and transparent.
If the police need more help to do their work, I will not hesitate in granting it to them.
Local people do want to see more police on the streets.
I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it's one of the most important institutions we have.
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.
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.
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.
Stop-and-search has the potential to cause immense resentment and honesty to the police, with all the implications that has for generating distrust and ending co-operation from the public, if it is not used fairly.
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.
My whole philosophy is about doing, not talking.
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.
I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.
It is all around us, hidden in plain sight. It is walking our streets, supplying shops and supermarkets, working in fields, factories or nail bars, trapped in brothels or cowering behind the curtains in an ordinary street: slavery.
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.
I've been clear that Brexit means Brexit.
Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.
Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police.
If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.
It is essential to democracy that the elected representatives of the people make the laws that govern this country - and not the judges.
Obviously local people will have their local voice through the police and crime commissioners that they've elected to determine their local policing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.
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.
I think for voters what matters is the values that drive the government.
I actually think I think better in high heels.
My pitch is very simple. My name is Theresa May, and I think I'm the best person to be Prime Minister of this country.
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.
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.
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.
Tying money up for 40 years doesn't sound appealing when you are young.
The right place for a person suffering a mental health crisis is a bed, not a police cell. And the right people to look after them are medically trained professionals, not police officers.
I'm not sure I should reveal the sources of my clothes.
Targets don't fight crime.
We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.
I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.
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?'
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
Unfortunately, some judges evidently do not regard a debate in Parliament on new immigration rules, followed by the unanimous adoption of those rules, as evidence that Parliament actually wants to see those new rules implemented.
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.
The Government cannot just be consumed by Brexit. There is so much more to do.
I was a teenage godmother.
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