If you stop investing in a modern road system to give an unaffordable electoral bung to new voters, then the investors who could create great jobs for them will be doing so for the younger generation in another country instead.
Travel costs should not be a barrier to opportunity for our young people.
I want to be the Tough Justice Secretary.
I'm very mindful of the need to ensure we have a criminal justice system in which people have confidence.
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.
Scotland is a great country. It's integral to the U.K.
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.
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.
The typical prisoner has numerous brushes with the law before finally being sent behind bars. Each year thousands of cautions are issued to people who will come back to crime again.
If the law is wrong, it is for politicians to sort it out.
We take back control of our laws and Britain will be a proud independent nation again.
Prison is not meant to be comfortable. It's not meant to be somewhere anyone would ever want to go back to.
We must give individuals the opportunity to show what they are capable of.
The root causes of the gang culture lie right across the policy spectrum - but they can all be found in the same areas geographically: worklessness; family breakdown; educational failure and addiction.
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 truth is that those who join gangs - more often than not they are young men in their later teens - often do come from the most difficult family backgrounds, from an environment where they feel neglected and unwanted. Gang membership can bring a perverse sense of belonging which they may not have ever got at home.
People are innocent until they are proven guilty, and we will make sure that stays the case.
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.
I think that far too often we let those who commit crimes in our society off far too lightly.
Few escape our most deprived estates. Few young people with potential escape difficult upbringings. Fewer cross the social divides.
