Labour want to control all parts of the economy and society so that they can pursue the politics of envy. It would leave us all paying higher taxes and the economy in tatters.

The free market is fundamentally humane and democratic, driven by ideas and millions of individual choices about what to do with our money which defy those who benefit from the status quo.

I am quite bolshy, sometimes. I like to get my own way, lets put it like that.

If we just had an election which is a kind of desiccated calculation, obviously I think the Conservatives have the best economic plans, but it is about more than that. It is about the overall person.

We've been prepared to make the arguments for lowering corporation tax, which is all about encouraging risk takers, encouraging entrepreneurs, and I observe that for the vast majority of the Labour government we had a top rate of 40 per cent income tax. It's now higher, and I think we should look to get to a simpler, lower tax system.

I had never met anyone of my own age that was a Tory, so going to university and seeing people who were Tories and who believed in what I believed in was an eye-opener.

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.

Taking control of our laws border and money, run not by a bunch of overpaid bureaucrats in Brussels but by a bunch of overpaid bureaucrats in Britain. That ladies and gentlemen is a dream worth fighting for.

People won't want powers being handed back from bureaucrats in Brussels to be given to bureaucrats in Britain. Our aim should be to give the British people greater control of their lives in all regards.

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.

Parliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it.

We want a fully comprehensive trade deal that reflects our deep, ongoing relationship, the friendship between our two countries, the fact that Australians want to come and live and work in Britain, and Brits want to come and live and work in Australia.

We're trendsetters, first to welcome brilliant inventions into our lives, from the microwave meal to Instagram. Britain is a nation of Uber-riding, Deliveroo-eating, Airbnb-ing freedom fighters.

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.

Women need to be less squeamish about making money.

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.

It's almost 10 years since the 2008 crisis, but we all still remember the consequences of ignoring threats to the public finances.

As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I aim to be the disrupter in chief; I want to challenge those who aim to block change, stop development and restrict success. I want to challenge the caution that strangles risk-takers and go-getters.

Britain has always been at its most successful when it's a trading nation.

It's vital to our economic mission that we fight vested interests, and make sure our country's opportunities are open to everyone - big or small, north or south, man or woman.

Economics and finance is the final frontier for women; it's the last thing they will conquer because controlling finance is at the heart of everything in government.

Leaving the European Union really does give us a chance as a country to become more outward-looking, to become more competitive, and to deepen our links with our partners right across the world.

I'm proud to say like many of my colleagues in the Conservative Party I am fully behind Theresa May's Brexit plans.

I want people to buy British because it's the tastiest food and the most exciting food.

I think every woman in this country will understand what it means to be mansplained to. It happens in everyday life - you know, if you go into a shop, or you're talking about finance.

I've been anxious but not depressed. I'm an incorrigible optimist.

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.

If I do feel scared I deliberately challenge myself not to feel scared.

I have been the only female minister in every government department I've worked in.

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.

Women are not going to start businesses because we tell them we don't have enough people of a certain group. People want to start businesses because it's a way of fulfilling their ambitions and dreams.

I think there's a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.

I didn't become a Tory just to become part of a managerial group who wanted to run the country... I want to see popular free-market Conservatism where barriers are broken down, people have got more opportunities but keep more of their own money.

I think we've got caught up in the weeds of Brexit, and... the approach has been to try and compromise and split the difference. And that to me is not what Brexit is about.

I admire Peter Mandleson's chutzpah and the way he transformed the Labour party but not his dubious ideas about Europe and industrial policy.

I'm a big fan of political editor Allegra Stratton.

It's absolutely right that we scrutinise the leaders who after all are going to be in a position of great power.

I love Britain. It really worries me, the prospect of Ed Miliband propped up by Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP and what that could do to our country. It's absolutely right that we highlight to voters that potential risk.

I want Britain to lead the world in food and farming and to do that we need enough productive agricultural land.

I'm very concerned that a lot of our land is being taken up with solar farms.

I was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.

We spent a lot of time talking about politics at home. We went to the camp at Greenham Common.

All of my parents' friends worked in public sector jobs. The teachers at my school were quite often card-carrying members of the Labour Party and it just was not part of the culture to approve of what the government was doing.

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 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.

I'm saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.

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.

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.