Quotes By Theresa May

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

On gay adoption I have changed my mind.

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.

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.

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.

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

I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.

You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.

I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England.

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.

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.

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.

Targets don't fight crime.

Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.