Conservative Party Quotes

• In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.

  Ed Balls

  Strong, Party, Gold

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• Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.

  Stockwell Day

  Party, Two, Conservative

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• We need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed midgets.

  Michael Steele

  Stupid, Silly, Needs

  "Steele: GOP needs 'hip-hop' makeover". Interview with Ralph Z. Hallow, m.washingtontimes.com. February 19, 2009.

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• I think in any organisation it's right to set out what you stand for, what you're fighting for and bring that together in one document so that people can see that the modern compassionate Conservative Party is in it for everybody - not just the rich

  David Cameron

  Party, Fighting, Thinking

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• The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer.

  Maude Royden

  Prayer, Party, Progress

  Speech at Queen's Hall, London, 16 July 1917

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• On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Real, Writing

  Essays, Second Series "Politics" (1844)

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• I can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

  Michael Heseltine

  Party, Names, Conservative

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• Only our own strength, a strong conservative party, can prevent Red-Red-Green from taking power at the federal level in 2017.

  Angela Merkel

  Strength, Strong, Party

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• I will never stand again for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

  Michael Howard

  Party, Conservative

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• I'm not 'worked up' so much as 'fed up' with the rat faced whores in the Conservative Party who neglect to invite me to announcements in my riding.

  Pat Martin

  Party, Riding, Rats

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• We have management questions. On increasing the basic state pension in line with earnings, because we have made a clear promise and said that the increase in the pension age has to be brought forward, that is an affordable and deliverable commitment from the Conservative Party.

  George Osborne

  Party, Commitment, Promise

  Source: blog.moneysavingexpert.com

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• The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to political reform, we have a much greater tradition in the Liberal Democrats of social justice and fairness than the Conservatives do.

  Nick Clegg

  Party, Europe, Justice

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• The conservatives have already accepted a large part of the collectivist creed-a creed that has governed policy for so long that many of its institutions have come to be accepted as a matter of course and have become a source of pride to "conservative" parties who created them. Here the believer in freedom cannot but conflict with the conservative and take an essentially radical position, directed against popular prejudices, entrenched positions, and firmly established privileges. Follies and abuses are no better for having long been established principles of folly.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Party, Pride, Long

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Postscript: Why I Am Not a Conservative, 1960.

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• The Conservative Party has one overriding concern in foreign policy, and that is the growth of Communist power and influence in the world, and the dangers it can bring for all of us.

  Reginald Maudling

  Party, Growth, World

  The Times, April 26, 1976.

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• I'm an intellectual Thatcherite, just as I was an intellectual Powellite, and I think it important that the Conservative party should be in good hands and that it should win elections.

  Maurice Cowling

  Party, Winning, Thinking

  "Singular Encounters" by Naim Attallah, Quartet Books, (p. 134), 1990.

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• 56,000 companies have already benefited from the schemes that we have brought in. If we have taken the advice of the Conservative Party, no money would have been used. As Barack Obama said only yesterday, doing nothing is not an option.

  Gordon Brown

  Party, Taken, Yesterday

  "PMQs February 11 2008 Did the Torys change Wikipedia's entry on Titian? (Prime Minister's Questions 8:44)". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. February 11, 2008.

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• I think that the principle of the Conservative Party is jealousy of liberty and of the people, only qualified by fear; but I think the principle of the Liberal Party is trust in the people, only qualified by prudence.

  William E. Gladstone

  Party, Thinking, People

  "Gladstone's Conundrums.; The Statesman Answers Sundry Interesting Questions". www.nytimes.com. February 9, 1879.

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• I think a lot of people in the Conservative party came from other parties. There wouldn't be a Conservative party today if people hadn't come from other parties.

  Tim Powers

  Party, Thinking, People

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• People are crying out for a Conservative Party that is decent, reasonable, common sense and in it for the long term of this country.

  David Cameron

  Country, Party, Common Sense

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• I am the last person whom it would be reasonable to expect to leave the Conservative Party.

  Enoch Powell

  Party, Would Be, Lasts

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• Let's make it clear: the Conservative Party has no plans for new NHS charges.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Party, Nhs, Conservative

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• Their [BBC] idea of bipartisanship is to try not to offend the Conservative party, try not to offend the Labour party.There is no analysis of anything beyond that, and these two parties are exactly identical, following the same Neoliberal policies for thirty years. And it's no criticism outside of that, it's just that there's basically sectarian pandering to these two individual parties, these two individual organisations. They still make a lot of great programmes and do a lot of great things, but there's not much political analysis happening broader to that.

  Irvine Welsh

  Party, Years, Ideas

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I was organizing a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference in October 1994 and I got a message that the Prime Minister would like a meeting. I went to the meeting. It was just me and John Major.What Major said to me was this: "If you were in my shoes, what would you do?". He wasn't asking me what a unionist should do, but what he should do. And I knew that I had to give him a sensible answer.

  David Trimble

  Party, Shoes, Giving

  Source: www.newsletter.co.uk

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• I am delighted to have won so much support from my colleagues. The Conservative Party can come together - and under my leadership it will.

  Theresa May

  Party, Support, Together

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• I am also incredibly proud of my party because today we have two strong woman candidates going to the country, we will have a women PM and it is the Conservative party yet again leading the way on this and it says to women all over the country you can get to the top.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Country, Strong Women, Party

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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