“National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.”

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.

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.

Then the people won’t trust in them – and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women’s rights as part of its reforms.

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

I’m trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

With this film, it’s nice to see that the trauma is presented from a white male that was in the Civil War and that trauma affects him in a way that still exists.

Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.

I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.

I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.