Quotes from Chris Grayling

We need a proper balance between rights and responsibilities in our laws.

I want to be the Tough Justice Secretary.

I personally always took the view that, if you look at the case of should a Christian hotel owner have the right to exclude a gay couple from a hotel, I took the view that if it's a question of somebody who's doing a B&B in their own home, that individual should have the right to decide who does and who doesn't come into their own home.

No longer can a bailiff come crashing through someone's door in the dead of night. We have banned them from visiting between 9 P.M. and 6 A.M.

Some bailiffs were tacking on extra charges left, right and centre - a fee for every letter they sent, extra fees for visiting your house, for clamping your car, seizing it, towing it and selling it. It all stacked up and people in debt had no choice but to pay. We have put an end to this.

During the late 1940s, Europe was a pretty bleak place.

Family breakdown is blighting the lives of far too many children.

I'm a lightning rod for the anti-Brexit brigade.

All too often, ambulance-chasing has been simple fraud. People are encouraged to launch a claim for whiplash when no one has been injured. Phone calls ask you to claim for accidents that never happened.

We cannot do anything that exposes the country to the risk of Jeremy Corbyn.

We cannot afford to let Brexit slip away - the political price, the reputational damage to the country is too great.

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 think that far too often we let those who commit crimes in our society off far too lightly.

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.

University research is crucial to our future as a nation.

The SNP talks a lot - but they have proved that they cannot deliver.

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.

I don't think all the cycle lanes in London have been designed as well as they should have been.

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.

We're ending the situation where any old thug can turn up and work as a bailiff.

Government is about priorities.

Prison is not meant to be comfortable. It's not meant to be somewhere anyone would ever want to go back to.

This is not rocket science. If you mentor and support people when they leave prison they're less likely to reoffend.

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.