“We’re getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we’re releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.”

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.

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

I’m not sure I should reveal the sources of my clothes.

One of the issues that has been an issue in how we deal with net migration up until now is that we haven’t been able to have any control over freedom of movement from the European Union. We will have that control in the future once we leave the EU.

I know I’m not a showy politician. I don’t go drinking in parliament’s bars. I don’t wear my heart on my sleeve, I just get on with the job in front of me and you can judge me by my record.

I always try to do something for my husband that’s completely selfless, and something that I hope will rock his world in some form or fashion.

An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.

I have lived too many lives to be only one thing, and instead of attempting to mesh them into a form of a human being, I have decided to love every jagged edge of mine.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy.

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.