Theresa May Quotes

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.
Theresa May

Work, Women, Positive

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

Government, Security, Duty

Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.
Theresa May

Business, Today, Mean

Well can I just make a point about the numbers because people talk a lot about police numbers as if police numbers are the holy grail. But actually what matters is what those police are doing. It's about how those police are deployed.
Theresa May

Talk, Holy, Point

A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!
Theresa May

Politics, Women, Men

And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their police officers to the greatest effect to ensure that they're able to do the job that the public want them to do.
Theresa May

Greatest, Job, Decisions

Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality.
Theresa May

Lives, Behaviour, Pathway

Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on housing and public services is too great.
Theresa May

Great, Stress, Feeling

Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.
Theresa May

Technology, Help, Action

Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1,000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can't be right.
Theresa May

Simple, Justice, Through

For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.
Theresa May

Government, Actually, Matters

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

Church, Daughter, England

I am willing to consider powers which would ban known hooligans from rallies and marches and I will look into the powers the police already have to force the removal of face coverings and balaclavas.
Theresa May

Face, Police, Known

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

Marriage, Important

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.
Theresa May

Important, Service, Public

I think for voters what matters is the values that drive the government.
Theresa May

Government, Values, Matters

I think if you talk to anybody who would like to have had children... I mean, you look at families all the time and you see there is something there that you don't have.
Theresa May

Time, Children, Mean

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.
Theresa May

Good, Job, Important

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.
Theresa May

Trust, Down, Between

I want a counter-terrorism regime that is proportionate, focused and transparent.
Theresa May

Focused, Regime

I was a teenage godmother.
Theresa May

Teenage, Godmother

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.
Theresa May

Politics, Nice, Young

I was looking at a photograph of the 1997 election campaign yesterday, and I thought: 'My God. Did I really have that hairstyle? And that Tory blue suit?'
Theresa May

God, Thought, Looking

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

Waste, Efficiency, Ruthless

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.
Theresa May

Makes, House, Cooking

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Nationality: British

Type: Politician

Born: October 1, 1956

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