“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.”

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 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.

The rules that the United States introduce will be obviously be rules for the United States, but I’m very clear about the opportunities I expect everyone in the UK to have. I will be representing the interests of everyone in the UK on a whole range of things we will talk about.

The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time.

And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.

Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

Be sincere. Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct.

artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.

She is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.

Unexpected romantic gestures are very important and keep things exciting.

I can’t do the same thing every night, the same gestures. it’s like putting on dirty panties every day.

Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.