“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.”

We’re continuing to work to bring immigration down to the tens of thousands.

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

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

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.

Targets don’t fight crime.

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

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

On gay adoption I have changed my mind.

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

Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can’t be right.

It’s only by investing properly in our defense that we can ensure we’re properly equipped to face our shared challenges together.

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

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.

I’m a first-past-the-post person, and always have been.

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.

God never intended His people to be ordinary or commonplace. His intentions were that they should be on fire for Him, conscious of His divine power, realizing the glory of the cross that foreshadows the crown.

God has privileged us in Christ Jesus to live above the ordinary human plane of life. Those who want to be ordinary and live on a lower plane can do so, but as for me, I will not.

I want to help you decide that, by the power of God, you will not be ordinary.

The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

I’ve said it before about the Nobel Prize: it’s like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.

I come from an ordinary family – my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker – and we’ve always loved racing together.

This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.