Theresa May Quotes

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

I'd personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it.

Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.

My pitch is very simple. I'm Theresa May and I think I'm the best person to be prime minister of this country.

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

It is quite widely known that I like shoes. This is not something that defines me as either a woman or a politician, but it has come to define me in the eyes of the newspapers. I wore a pair of leopard-print kitten heels to a Conservative Party Conference a few years ago and the papers have continued to focus on my feet ever since.

Brexit means Brexit.The public made their verdict.

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.

The last time Boris Johnson did a deal with the Germans he came back with three nearly new water cannon.

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.

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

I'm not sure I should reveal the sources of my clothes.

You have a job but you don't always have job security, you have your own home but you worry about mortgage rates going up, you can just about manage but you worry about the cost of living and the quality of the local school because there is no other choice for you.rankly, not everybody in Westminster understands what it's like to live like this and some need to be told that it isn't a game.

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.

Brexit must mean control of the number of people who come to Britain from Europe, and that is what I will deliver.

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

On gay adoption I have changed my mind.

Whether an MP is a woman or a man, it's about the qualities of the individual in doing that job.

I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England.

Donald Trump does not understand the UK and what happens in the UK.

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.

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

Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that's very positive.

[Is the Conservative Party still the Nasty Party?] I said it was perceived as the Nasty Party. And is it? I don't think that it's a phrase that people today would apply to the Party. I think that the perception of the Party has changed.

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.

I was a teenage godmother.

If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.

We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.

There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.

I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution; it's one of the most important institutions we have.

The internet is changing all forms of communication, and this definitely includes political communication.

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.

Any attempt to wriggle, especially from leadership candidates who campaigned to leave the EU by focusing on immigration, will be unacceptable to the public.

Under my leadership the Conservative Party will come back together in the interests of the whole country.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm a first-past-the-post person, and always have been.

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

I'm sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong.

The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.

My night out would be with my husband, wherever he chose to take me.

We're continuing to work to bring immigration down to the tens of thousands.

The internet makes information easier to come by, but harder to control - think of the success of blogs like ConservativeHome and Guido Fawkes. I definitely think Parliament's website can be improved - perhaps it could have better access to video feed, include interactive features or have discussion forums.

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?