Top 231 Quotes & Sayings by Theresa May - Page 3

The decision on whether to ban anyone from the U.K. is made by the home secretary on the basis of the evidence at the time.

We want to go further than preventing people from becoming terrorists and focus on a broader approach to counter-extremism - both violent and non-violent.

Our laws must protect victims.

It's very important that we unite as a party and as a country.

It does not make sense that everybody should duplicate efforts when we could be working together.

UKIP talk a lot about immigration - but they don't have a serious plan for action.

If we are going to realise our ambition of ending the harmful practices of FGM and forced marriage, the role of young people in pushing for change is crucial. We also need to ensure that everyone, from government to civil society, is playing their part.

While we have come a long way, we must go further if we are to ensure greater diversity and truly modern police forces that reflect the communities they serve and provide police officers able to tackle not only traditional crime but also the changing face of crime.

We are ensuring that we are checking people who are coming in to the U.K.

One girl subjected to FGM or forces to marry is one girl too many.

Quite rightly, the public expects to see forces serving their communities, not chasing arbitrary targets.

I think our police do an excellent job, day in and day out, working to keep us safe.

We need to bring control into movement of people coming into the U.K. from the E.U.

The use of water cannon could have changed the face of British policing; it would have made a huge difference to British policing.

The overall policing budget is protected.

Targets don't fight crime; they hinder the fight against crime.

It is very important that people see there is a bright future, and we can re-engage that entrepreneurial spirit of the trading nation for which the U.K. has always been known - that dynamic, creative spirit.

Women often focus more on delivery - what is the outcome going to be rather than what are the interactions people have in order to get there.

If I am prime minister, we will come out of the European Union, and part of that will be control of free movement.

We are engaged in a struggle that is fought on many fronts and in many forms.

Retailers have an important part to play in preventing knife crime - enforcing age restrictions and displaying knives safely is crucial.

We need to change attitudes. We can only change attitudes by working together. Government will do its bit, but I want you all to do your bit, too. So speak out, stand up against violence against women and girls, and that's the way we can eradicate it.

We will make the law clearer on parents' liability for failing to prevent their child being subjected to FGM, and we are working to improve the police response.

As late as the 1980s, female officers were issued with uniform and kit which included a handbag, complete with a smaller truncheon to fit inside, and it wasn't until 1995 that our first female chief constable was appointed.

Our manifesto to the British people promised to finish the job of police reform. And that is exactly what I intend to do.

We have a very clear position in the U.K. against torture, and we should maintain that.

Shortly after the appointment of Britain's first-ever female police constable with officials powers of arrest, the Home Office declared that women could not be sworn in as police officers because they were not deemed 'proper persons'. It makes you wonder what those Home Office officials would say now to having a female Home Secretary.

The Snowden leaks did cause damage.

I'm very pleased to be recognising International Women's Day, a day that celebrates the achievements of women across the world.

Knife crime devastates communities.

I think we all agree that the comments Donald Trump made in relation to Muslims were divisive, unhelpful and wrong.

David Cameron has already said, and I have said, that a Conservative government would be giving the security agencies and law enforcement agencies the powers that they need to ensure that they are keeping up to date as people communicate with data.

One of the issues that has been an issue in how we deal with net migration up until now is that we haven't been able to have any control over freedom of movement from the European Union. We will have that control in the future once we leave the EU.

I know I'm not a showy politician... I don't go drinking in parliament's bars. I don't wear my heart on my sleeve, I just get on with the job in front of me and you can judge me by my record.

The Government has already U-turned today and I think the pressure is clearly growing for proper accountability over what this Government's negotiating position is on Brexit.

I take a very simple view that a violent extremist at some point previously been an extremist, and by definition is an extremist, so you do need to look at that non-violent extremism.

Brexit means Brexit.The public made their verdict.

Brexit must mean control of the number of people who come to Britain from Europe, and that is what I will deliver.

Under my leadership the Conservative Party will come back together in the interests of the whole country.

Any attempt to wriggle, especially from leadership candidates who campaigned to leave the EU by focusing on immigration, will be unacceptable to the public.

Whether an MP is a woman or a man, it's about the qualities of the individual in doing that job.

You have a job but you don't always have job security, you have your own home but you worry about mortgage rates going up, you can just about manage but you worry about the cost of living and the quality of the local school because there is no other choice for you.rankly, not everybody in Westminster understands what it's like to live like this and some need to be told that it isn't a game.

I want to see an open and tolerant society here in the United Kingdom, I want to see a country that works for everyone whatever their background.

Not partial membership of the European Union or anything that leaves us half in, half out. No, the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union.

My pitch is very simple. I'm Theresa May and I think I'm the best person to be prime minister of this country.

[Is the Conservative Party still the Nasty Party?] I said it was perceived as the Nasty Party. And is it? I don't think that it's a phrase that people today would apply to the Party. I think that the perception of the Party has changed.

Donald Trump does not understand the UK and what happens in the UK.

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

The days of Britain and America intervening in sovereign countries in an attempt to remake the world in our own image are over.

We should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises.

As I say the UK's position on the issue of torture and the use of torture has not changed. Our policy is the same as it has been. We condemn torture.

I want to put the interests of ordinary working people right up there, center stage. Those people who - you know, they're working all the hours. They're doing their best for their families and sometimes they just feel the odds are stacked against them.

The last time Boris Johnson did a deal with the Germans he came back with three nearly new water cannon.

It remains overwhelmingly and compellingly in Britain's national interest that the EU should succeed.

The internet is changing all forms of communication, and this definitely includes political communication.

My night out would be with my husband, wherever he chose to take me.

As I reflect on the results of election I will reflect on what we need to do in the future to take the party forward.

The public want honesty from their politicians. Not showy gimmicks.

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

There's a whole range of areas that we'll be looking at, so I'm not at this very early stage going to specify any particular areas. As you will know, there will be a limit to how far we can go in terms of a formal free trade agreement until we've actually left the European Union. I think there is much that we [with Donald Trump] can do in the interim in terms of looking at how we can remove some of the barriers to trade in a number of areas.