“The public want honesty from their politicians. Not showy gimmicks.”

I am the only candidate capable of delivering these three things as prime minister, and tonight it is clear that I am also the only one capable of drawing support from the whole of the Conservative party.

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

I think major reorganisation is not something the government’s about to do.

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

In seats where perhaps we don’t expect to win at the next general election, the new infrastructure gives us a chance to win local council seats and to build a campaigning base which could help us to win in the future.

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.

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.

Not partial membership of the European Union or anything that leaves us half in, half out. No, the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union.

Labour completely accepts and recognises the vote to leave the EU. The question is what is the agenda for that process and that needs to be held to account in Parliament now and that means it needs to be open to a vote.

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

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!

Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.

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.

I know there are some voices calling for a punitive deal that punishes Britain. That would be an act of calamitous self-harm for the countries of Europe, and it would not be the act of a friend.

It remains overwhelmingly and compellingly in Britain’s national interest that the EU should succeed.

In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.

[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician’s life.

We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain’t it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa’s young people properly.

What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.