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I feel I've come home at the Treasury.
I'd love the job of Chancellor one day.
When men call women ambitious they mean pushy.
I'm a big fan of political editor Allegra Stratton.
Women need to be less squeamish about making money.
I think there's a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.
I've been anxious but not depressed. I'm an incorrigible optimist.
If I do feel scared I deliberately challenge myself not to feel scared.
Britain has always been at its most successful when it's a trading nation.
I'm very concerned that a lot of our land is being taken up with solar farms.
Our public services and the great people who work in them are improving lives.
I am quite bolshy, sometimes. I like to get my own way, lets put it like that.
As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.
I was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.
Parliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it.
I believe one of the main roles of Government is to keep our economy free and fair.
I have been the only female minister in every government department I've worked in.
The biggest opportunities from Brexit will come from more trade with the rest of the world.
I campaigned for the UK to stay in the European Union but the country chose a different path.
Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.
In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.
From Brompton bikes in Australia to Bentleys in the US - the world wants what Britain has to sell.
Brexit has energised millions of people, young and old, to take part in our democracy and that's a great thing.
Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell have made no secret of their desire to stamp out individualism and enterprise.
It's absolutely right that we scrutinise the leaders who after all are going to be in a position of great power.
I want Britain to lead the world in food and farming and to do that we need enough productive agricultural land.
I'm saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.
And after Brexit, we will be free to determine our economic future, with control over our money, laws and borders.
I'm proud to say like many of my colleagues in the Conservative Party I am fully behind Theresa May's Brexit plans.
I was interested in the ideas - freedom, free speech and having control of my own life. That's why I became a Tory.
I have to admit I don't like pizza. I love it. And I am prepared to do literally anything to get my hands on a slice.
I hate rodents. I mean, the House of Commons is completely infested. I will stand on a chair if I see one of the things.
Maintaining confidence in international trade will be critical to the broader economic recovery in the post-Covid world.
The British brand is so popular particularly in the US that they put the union jack flag on top of beer bottles because it sells.
It's almost 10 years since the 2008 crisis, but we all still remember the consequences of ignoring threats to the public finances.
What you notice in French nurseries is just how calm they are. All of their classes are structured and led by teachers. It's a requirement.
I admire Peter Mandleson's chutzpah and the way he transformed the Labour party but not his dubious ideas about Europe and industrial policy.
What I saw when I went to France was that really good quality education and childcare is seen there as a completely normal part of everyday life.
We have lots of roadside stands in Norfolk where you can just pick up vegetables that people have grown in their garden and put the money in a pot.
Let's cut the top rates of stamp duty to enable more movement to take place and also looking at the broader tax reform, simplifying our tax system.
I don't like tokenism. I don't like the idea that somebody should just appear at a press conference or in a media interview because they are a woman.
We are working hard at home and on the international stage to further identify the problems on the horizon and to ensure we reboot trade post-Covid-19.
It is right that people and businesses retain as much of their own money as possible so that they have the freedom to innovate and invest in the future.
Nobody wants to be in a room or their business to be funded because they're a woman. They don't want to be discriminated against because they're a woman.
In London the average person is paying 50 per cent of their income on rent. Just think how much better off people would feel if that number was a lot lower.
The US is our largest trading partner and increasing transatlantic trade can help our economies bounce back from the economic challenge posed by coronavirus.
Choice is a national instinct. This capitalist bedrock of our prosperity and security is threatened by a Labour Party that wants to overthrow the whole system.
I try to be as clear and straight as I can in what I am putting forward. I think people are fed up with politicians where there are lots of bland lines to take.
It's a merger of home life and work life. They aren't that separate, I must confess, and my daughters know an awful lot about childcare reform now because of it.
And certainly having gone to Oxford, and seen some of the other students there, I wouldn't say the ones at my school were less capable. They could've been there.