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

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

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.

What happened in the United States election is not a matter for the United Kingdom, it is a matter for the United States and the United States authorities.

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

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

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

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.

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.

I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.

All pitchers are born pitchers.

The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it up sometimes to one pitch of definition and sometimes to another, so as to see down into different depths through the great millstone of the world.

I think when I first started, I tried to make believe I was in the ballpark, sitting next to somebody and just talking. And if you go to a ballgame, and you sit there, you’re not going to talk pitches for three hours.

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t never been seen by this generation.

My pitching philosophy is simple – keep the ball way from the bat.

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes.