Words matter. These are the best Chris Grayling Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We are a humane society, and one which believes that we have to help rehabilitate offenders so they turn away from crime.
All too often politicians sign treaties in a hurry, without reading them properly, and without understanding where they will lead.
We are world leaders in open and transparent government.
It is free enterprise and the determination to succeed which generates opportunity and wealth for our society, and in doing so provides the money we need to deliver the high quality public services that we all want.
During the late 1940s, Europe was a pretty bleak place.
The SNP talks a lot – but they have proved that they cannot deliver.
This is not rocket science. If you mentor and support people when they leave prison they’re less likely to reoffend.
Universities which deliver high quality research and innovation will be an essential part of that future.
People are innocent until they are proven guilty, and we will make sure that stays the case.
One thing really important is that we set out an agenda of compassionate Conservativism. That’s what I’ve been trying to do in the Justice Department.
European businesses will want to retain free-trade access to the U.K. – their biggest export market.
To survive in the future, we will need our economy to be dynamic, entrepreneurial, innovative and flexible.
It was in that uncertain world that the European Convention on Human Rights was shaped. Written by Conservatives, it set out the principles which should lie behind a modern democratic state, where human rights were respected.
I don’t think all the cycle lanes in London have been designed as well as they should have been.
Visit any of the fastest growing parts of the world and you will find investment in infrastructure.
I’m very mindful of the need to ensure we have a criminal justice system in which people have confidence.
Family breakdown is blighting the lives of far too many children.
You can’t be allowed to take away the rights of others, and then use your own rights to avoid facing the consequences.
The arrival of DNA testing has brought new dimensions to the investigation of crime. It has brought resolution to old cases where past investigators were unable to uncover the truth. It has brought justice in new cases where once the truth might never have been known.
I have met virtually no one in the policing and security world who thinks ID cards are an essential part of what they need to do in the future.
If we have unlimited migration in perpetuity, the pressure that will put on the lives of those in and around London and the South-East, in terms of housing and pressure on public services, will be something that all of us come to understand, in my view, is simply not copable with.
Scotland is a great country. It’s integral to the U.K.
People who end up in our prisons tend to come from the most difficult backgrounds. They did not have the parental support as they grew up, as many of us enjoyed, and they struggle when they leave prison.
An economic strategy built around hiking taxes for business means one thing: fewer jobs.
Whether it is kids carrying knives because they are in gangs or kids carrying knives because they are afraid of gangs, it is the gang culture that underpins the problem.
The trouble with the SNP is they want power without responsibility. They do not want to take difficult decisions.
We have to take real steps to break down the culture of benefit dependency and failure which blights too many urban areas.
A something-for-nothing culture does no one any favours. It makes those who are doing the right thing cynical.
Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Leeds have successful financial services sectors. There are good universities there which provide great opportunities for local technological innovation. And there are strong multinational and family businesses.
It’s not good enough to announce ‘I know my rights’ if you aren’t prepared to accept that you have responsibilities to society and your fellow citizens as well. And if people don’t live up to those responsibilities to our society, they will not be able to hide behind their rights.
Britain cannot afford to allow a culture of Left-wing-dominated, single-issue activism to hold back our country from investing in infrastructure and new sources of energy and from bringing down the cost of our welfare state.
Good health and safety really matters – we need to protect people against death and serious injury in the workplace.
It is already tough to buy a house. But if we are bringing a population the size of Newcastle upon Tyne into the country every single year, if we cannot set limits on the number of people that come and work in Britain, then simple maths says it is going to be even more difficult to get on to the housing ladder.
I’m not suggesting we suddenly become a jingoistic, closed-door society that erects barricades at Dover. That would not be in the interests of London. But we can’t, in my view, go on for ever accepting an unlimited number of people.
The railways should be run in the best interest of passengers and, overall, taxpayer’s money should be spent improving the network, not subsiding it.
I want to be the Tough Justice Secretary.
Government is about priorities.
Britain is a country of glass ceilings.
Motorists in London have got to be immensely careful of cyclists. At the same time, cyclists in London are too often unwilling to obey the road signs. I’ve seen regular examples of people who just bolt through red lights.
The vast majority of young people in Britain are law-abiding citizens making important contributions to their communities.
Introducing ID cards isn’t a matter of great national security importance.
Britain has always been a good citizen in the world. We rightly provide a safe haven for people fleeing political persecution by brutal regimes. Our legal system is often seen as a beacon for the rest of the world, with people coming from all over to study it and embed its principles into their own systems.
I want to see prisoners getting support that is every bit as good as that which they would receive from the NHS in the community.
You chastise children when they are bad, as my parents did me. I’m not opposed to smacking. It is to be used occasionally.
Judicial review has developed since the 1970s as a way for individuals to challenge decisions taken by the State.
The problems of gang crime you find in some parts of the north are little different to the problems you find on the streets of south London.
Police on the street need the discretion to deal quickly and easily with routine misdemeanours which need to be recorded but need not take up court time – and where there is no doubt about guilt.
Turkey has a customs union with the E.U. – it still means there are checks on the border between Turkey and the E.U.
We cannot do anything that exposes the country to the risk of Jeremy Corbyn.
In an ideal world, no one should get something for nothing.
