Theresa May Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Brexit means Brexit.The public made their verdict.

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

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

I want to see an open and tolerant society here in the United Kingdom, I want to see a country that works for everyone whatever their background.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The days of Britain and America intervening in sovereign countries in an attempt to remake the world in our own image are over.

It remains overwhelmingly and compellingly in Britain's national interest that the EU should succeed.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.