Theresa May Quotes

• 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.

  Theresa May

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Without, Place, Able

• People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they’re going to travel.

  Theresa May

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Travel, Choice, Public

• People feel that they’re being required to meet all sorts of regulations and rules and requirements in their areas of work and MPs are not imposing those sort of restrictions on themselves.

  Theresa May

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Themselves, Rules

• One area in which we can be certain mass immigration has an effect is housing. More than one third of all new housing demand in Britain is caused by immigration. And there is evidence that without the demand caused by mass immigration, house prices could be 10% lower over a 20-year period.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Without, Over, House

• On gay adoption I have changed my mind.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mind, Gay, Changed

• Obviously local people will have their local voice through the police and crime commissioners that they’ve elected to determine their local policing.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Through, Voice, Police

• Now there is a growing feeling, it’s something that David Cameron led on actually, he said this some time ago, that MPs should not be voting on their own pay.

  Theresa May

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Feeling, Said

• No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the job is that they are given a briefing about the security matters that they will be dealing with and I deal with security matters on a daily basis.

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  Topics in Job

  Tags in Home, Daily

• Look, we constantly live looking at the issue of the threat of terrorism.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Live, Look, Looking

• Local people do want to see more police on the streets.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Police, Local, Streets

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

  Theresa May

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Why, Might

• Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police.

  Theresa May

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Home, Office, Police

• It’s always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.

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  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Silence, Heard

• 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.

  Theresa May

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Focus, Woman, Come

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

  Theresa May

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pain, Tough, Everyone

• If you can speak English, and you can get a place on a proper course at a proper university, you can come to study in Britain.

  Theresa May

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Come, Study, Place

• If the police need more help to do their work, I will not hesitate in granting it to them.

  Theresa May

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Help, Need

• I’m not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.

  Theresa May

  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Free, Willing

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

  Theresa May

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sure, Clothes, Reveal

• I’m not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

  Theresa May

  Topics in Anger

  Tags in Someone, Issues

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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