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"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."
"I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency."
"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."
"[Is the Conservative Party still the Nasty Party?] I said it was perceived as the Nasty Party. And is it? I don't think that it's a phrase that people today would apply to the Party. I think that the perception of the Party has changed."
"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."
"I was a teenage godmother."
"If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise."
"We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers."
"The internet is changing all forms of communication, and this definitely includes political communication."
"I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution; it's one of the most important institutions we have."
"There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour."
"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."
"Any attempt to wriggle, especially from leadership candidates who campaigned to leave the EU by focusing on immigration, will be unacceptable to the public."
"Under my leadership the Conservative Party will come back together in the interests of the whole country."
"As I reflect on the results of election I will reflect on what we need to do in the future to take the party forward."
"National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties."
"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."
"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."
"Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can't be right."
"There's a whole range of areas that we'll be looking at, so I'm not at this very early stage going to specify any particular areas. As you will know, there will be a limit to how far we can go in terms of a formal free trade agreement until we've actually left the European Union. I think there is much that we [with Donald Trump] can do in the interim in terms of looking at how we can remove some of the barriers to trade in a number of areas."