Quotes from Chris Grayling

I want prisons to be spartan, but humane, a place people don't have a particular desire to come back to.

European businesses will want to retain free-trade access to the U.K. - their biggest export market.

You can't be allowed to take away the rights of others, and then use your own rights to avoid facing the consequences.

These internet trolls are cowards who are poisoning our national life. No-one would permit such venom in person, so there should be no place for it on social media.

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.

A something-for-nothing culture does no one any favours. It makes those who are doing the right thing cynical.

Generational disinterest in education means that too many young children lack the push from their parents in early years which can make the difference between success and failure in schools.

Britain is a country of glass ceilings.

The growth of cycling is a good thing. But good cycling is responsible cycling.

Britain has always been a nation with a strong global focus. We have influenced change and built strong ties all round the world.

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.

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.

Good health and safety really matters - we need to protect people against death and serious injury in the workplace.

To survive in the future, we will need our economy to be dynamic, entrepreneurial, innovative and flexible.

We need to curtail the role of the European Court of Human Rights in the U.K.

We need to scrap the Human Rights Act and need a balance between rights and responsibilities.

The Human Rights Convention was written by Conservatives in the aftermath of the Second World War. It was designed to combat the risk of another Holocaust, and to try to stop people being sent to prison camps without trial.

In an ideal world, no one should get something for nothing.

On our toughest estates, generations pass with the same experience of worklessness and educational failure.

We are concerned about benefit tourism.

Social immobility is driven by family background, instability in childhood and often by parents who don't know how to give children the right start in life.

Scotland is a great country. It's integral to the U.K.

Take a walk around many of our cities and you will find areas of deprivation, high worklessness and educational failure only yards from areas of prosperity and employment.

Are we really going to accept the situation where the government of Lithuania has more power over our trading relationship with the Commonwealth than our government does? That is the reality of the customs union.