Theresa May Quotes
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Starting with the highest-risk countries, and focusing on the route to Britain that is widely abused, student visas, we will increase the number of interviews to considerably more than 100,000, starting next financial year. From there, we will extend the interviewing programme further across all routes to Britain, wherever the evidence takes us.
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The public want honesty from their politicians. Not showy gimmicks.
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In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.
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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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Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality.
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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.
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I think that special relationship between the UK and the US has been an important part of security across the world particularly to the West.
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We should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises.
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These modern means of communication are one reason why I recently opposed the Government's decision to grant MPs a new communications allowance. With new technology giving us the opportunity to communicate directly with voters very cheaply, why did Labour MPs vote for a £10,000 allowance to tell voters what a good job they do?
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Britain and the United States have an enduring and special relationship based on the values of freedom, democracy and enterprise.
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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.
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We're committed to NATO. From the conversations I've already had with President Donald Trump over the phone, he has shown to me his commitment to NATO as well.
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Tying money up for 40 years doesn't sound appealing when you are young.
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We are mandating forces to hold regular neighbourhood beat meetings. These meetings will give local people the chance to scrutinise the work of their local police.
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The internet is changing all forms of communication, and this definitely includes political communication.
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There's a whole range of areas that we'll be looking at, so I'm not at this very early stage going to specify any particular areas. As you will know, there will be a limit to how far we can go in terms of a formal free trade agreement until we've actually left the European Union. I think there is much that we with Donald Trump can do in the interim in terms of looking at how we can remove some of the barriers to trade in a number of areas.
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Local people do want to see more police on the streets.
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I'm going to be very clear in everything we do. I believe the special relationship is important to us, it's important more widely across Europe and the world. But I will also be very clear in the decisions I take and the conversations I have about UK interests. I'm not going to say anything different to Donald Trump to what I'm saying to you in terms of UK interests and where those lie.
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What I'm clear about is that we have an opportunity through this early meeting with Donald Trump to start that process of building on that special relationship, that special relationship which is on our national interest, and I think that we can together not just build that special relationship but do it in a way that is good for both for us and good more widely.
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If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.
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Britain is an open and tolerant country.
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I think that probably in some areas the Labour message about some of the things that they said we were going to do - and which we weren't going to do - cut through.
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Britain and the United States are, and will remain, strong and close partners on trade, security and defence.
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If ever there was a time for a PM ready and able to do the job from day one, this is it.