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.
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More Theresa May Quotes
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We’re continuing to work to bring immigration down to the tens of thousands.
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The days of Britain and America intervening in sovereign countries in an attempt to remake the world in our own image are over.
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People will be able to raise their concerns: what are local officers doing about the drug dealing in the local park? What’s happening about the pub where all the trouble is? And the police will have to respond.
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I’m not someone who feels anger on particular issues.
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Donald Trump does not understand the UK and what happens in the UK.
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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.
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There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.
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The last time Boris Johnson did a deal with the Germans he came back with three nearly new water cannon.
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Whether an MP is a woman or a man, it’s about the qualities of the individual in doing that job.
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Britain is an open and tolerant country.
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Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.
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We’re getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we’re releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.
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In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.
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My pitch is very simple. I’m Theresa May and I think I’m the best person to be prime minister of this country.
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Like Indiana Jones, I don’t like snakes – though that might lead some to ask why I’m in politics.
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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.
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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.
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I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.
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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.
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I’m sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong.
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I take a very simple view that a violent extremist at some point previously been an extremist, and by definition is an extremist, so you do need to look at that non-violent extremism.
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I’d personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it.
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The internet makes it much easier for politicians to communicate directly with voters – think of the interest when David [Cameron] launched WebCameron, or Tony Blair’s rather embarrassing attempt to catch up on YouTube.
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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.
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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.
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On gay adoption I have changed my mind.
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