“On gay adoption I have changed my mind.”

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

I have not watched WAGs World, I have not watched the BBC’s Upstairs, Downstairs, either. It would be Downton Abbey, I think.

Tying money up for 40 years doesn’t sound appealing when you are young.

Britain is an open and tolerant country.

As I say the UK’s position on the issue of torture and the use of torture has not changed. Our policy is the same as it has been. We condemn torture.

I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics.

Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that.

You can’t solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.

We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act. About the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.

I’m not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

As I reflect on the results of election I will reflect on what we need to do in the future to take the party forward.

I believe it’s important that we ensure that the police have a modern and flexible workforce. I think that’s what is necessary, so that they can provide the public with the service that they want.

As I’ve said previously as home secretary, dealing with immigration isn’t just a single issue and a single measure and a single step that you take. You’ve got to keep working at that over time.

I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It’s all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible.

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.

Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, “Adoption, not Abortion,” although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.

“to industry.’ Let us change the word, ‘industry,’ to ‘persevering prayer,’ and the motto will be more Christian and more worthy of universal adoption.

Nothing is impossible,’ said one of the seven sages of Greece.

An adopted son shall never take the family, name and the estate of his natural father, the funeral cake follows the family, name and the estate, the funeral offerings of him who gives, his son in adoption cease, as far as that son is concerned.

Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another’s sorrow.

You can keep ‘consumer’ DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.