Theresa May Quotes

• You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn’t fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can’t even speak the same language?

  Theresa May

  Topics in Children, Country

  Tags in School

• You don’t think about it at the time, but there are certain responsibilities that come with being the vicar’s daughter. You’re supposed to behave in a particular way. I shouldn’t say it, but I probably was Goody Two Shoes.

  Theresa May

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Come, Two

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

  Theresa May

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Legal, Problem, Complex

• Within the E.U., in a wider context, people are increasingly recognising the need to prevent the abuse of free movement.

  Theresa May

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Need, Free, Within

• When you first come into Parliament, it’s a daunting place because you feel you’ve so much to learn. Once you’ve been re-elected, you feel much more confident. It just gives you a bit of a boost.

  Theresa May

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Come, Place, Learn

• What is absolutely clear is that we have, with the U.S., an extradition treaty which is important, I believe it is an important treaty, for both sides, the United States and the United Kingdom. It is a treaty that I believe is balanced and we work on that basis.

  Theresa May

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Believe, Important

• We’ve got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.

  Theresa May

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Moment, Leader

• We are seeing, we have seen in the last figures a significant drop in the number of net migrants coming into the United Kingdom. So we are cutting out abuse, we’ve restricted the number of economic – non-EU economic migrants. We’re cutting out abuse across the student visa system, particularly, and we’re having an impact.

  Theresa May

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Last, Student, Seen

• 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.

  Theresa May

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pet, Human, Cannot

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

  Theresa May

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Forces, British, Mass

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

  Theresa May

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Young, Sound

• Today, there’s an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.

  Theresa May

  Topics in Past

  Tags in Today, Yourself

• There’s much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums.

  Theresa May

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Government, Back

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

  Theresa May

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nothing, Crime, Inevitable

• The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that we’re open for university students coming into the U.K. There’s a job here not just for the government, I think there’s a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open.

  Theresa May

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Government, Understand

• 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.

  Theresa May

  Topics in Family, Society

  Tags in Simple

• The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration.

  Theresa May

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Here, Create, Aim

• Targets don’t fight crime.

  Theresa May

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fight, Crime, Targets

• 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.

  Theresa May

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Year, Student, Next

• So we mustn’t lower our guard in any sense because of what has happened in terms of the death of Osama Bin Laden and we are certainly not doing that. The terror threat level here in the U.K. remains at severe and we’re very conscious of the need to continue that.

  Theresa May

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Need, Sense

Theresa May (73)

Birth:	1st October, 1956
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Politician

About

Theresa Mary May is a British Conservative politician who is the current Home Secretary. She was first elected to Parliament in 1997 as the Member of Parliament for Maidenhead. She went on to be appointed Chairman of the Conservative Party in 2002 and was sworn of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council.

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