Quotes By Theresa May

Obviously local people will have their local voice through the police and crime commissioners that they've elected to determine their local policing.

For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.

It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.

In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.

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.

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.

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.

Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.

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

There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.

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 for voters what matters is the values that drive the government.

Look, we constantly live looking at the issue of the threat of terrorism.

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.

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.

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.

I'd personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it.

I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.

Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.

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.

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.

On gay adoption I have changed my mind.

I want a counter-terrorism regime that is proportionate, focused and transparent.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tying money up for 40 years doesn't sound appealing when you are young.

If the police need more help to do their work, I will not hesitate in granting it to them.