Theresa May Quotes

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

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  Tags in Human, Problems, Rights

• 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.

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  Tags in Makes, House, Cooking

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

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  Tags in Waste, Efficiency, Ruthless

• 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?’

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  Topics in God

  Tags in Thought, Did

• 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.

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  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Nice, Young

• I was a teenage godmother.

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  Tags in Teenage

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

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  Tags in Focused, Regime

• 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.

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  Topics in Trust

  Tags in Come, Down

• 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.

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  Topics in Job

  Tags in Good, Important

• 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.

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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Time, Mean

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

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  Tags in Government, Matters

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

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  Tags in Marriage, Believe, Important

• 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.

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  Tags in Look, Face, Police

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

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  Tags in Still, Church, Daughter

• For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.

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  Tags in Government, Actually, Matters

• 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

  Topics in Positive, Work

  Tags in Women

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

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  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Help, Action

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Stress, Feeling

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Still, Lives, Behaviour

• 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!

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  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Women, Men

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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