Conservative Party Quotes - Page 2

• The Conservative Party have got to ask themselves, 'How do we persuade people who at the moment are voting Labour and Liberal Democrat to vote Conservative

  Kenneth Clarke

  Party, People, Voting

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• I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.

  Carl Paladino

  Dog, Party, Thinking

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• The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Party, Men, Aggravation

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• We should be in the business of protecting cherished institutions and our cultural heritage, otherwise what, I ask, is a Conservative party for? Indeed we are alienating people who have voted for us for all their lives, leaving them with no one to vote for.

  Edward Leigh

  Party, Gay, People

  House of Commons Debates, publications.parliament.uk. February 5, 2013.

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• Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.

  George Monbiot

  Hate, Party, Government

  "This Tory bonfire of regulations lets the rich foul the poor with impunity" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2010.

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• The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

  George Osborne

  Party, Men, Benches

  "More Blairite than Tony" by Heather Stewart, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• The Conservative party, the modern Conservative party, is on the side of people who want to work hard and get on.

  George Osborne

  Party, Hard Work, People

  "George Osborne: austerity may last until 2018" by Hélène Mulholland,, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2012.

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• The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.

  Alan Moore

  Religious, Party, Organization

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 24, 2001.

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• It is quite widely known that I like shoes. This is not something that defines me as either a woman or a politician, but it has come to define me in the eyes of the newspapers. I wore a pair of leopard-print kitten heels to a Conservative Party Conference a few years ago and the papers have continued to focus on my feet ever since.

  Theresa May

  Party, Eye, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.

  John Lydon

  Party, Men, Class

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• Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

  William Hague

  Party, Government, Territory

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• It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Party, Years, Two

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• The Conservative Party is not honouring the commitment to Lords reform and, as a result, part of our contract has now been broken. Clearly I cannot permit a situation where Conservative rebels can pick and choose the parts of the contract they like, while Liberal Democrat MPs are bound to the entire agreement.

  Nick Clegg

  Party, Commitment, Agreement

  "Coalition deadlock as Nick Clegg and David Cameron veto each other" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2012.

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• I believe my party should never flinch from the requirement that we must continue this progression, otherwise we may end up like the Republican party who lost an election last year that they could have won were it not for their socially conservative agenda. We may have gone two steps forward, but I fear we may have gone one step backwards. The modernisation of the Conservative party is not yet complete.

  Margot James

  Party, Believe, Gay

  "Gay marriage debate: Tory MP warns party not to follow the Republican road" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2013.

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• One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system.

  Nick Clegg

  Party, Two, Political

  "Nick Clegg takes thorny path out of the Rose Garden". Interview with Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2012.

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• One would have thought that if there was one cause in the world which the Conservative party would have hastened to defend, it would be the cause of the British Empire in India ... Our fight is hard. It will also be long ... But win or lose, we must do our duty. If the British people are to lose their Indian Empire, they shall do so with their eyes open.

  Winston Churchill

  Party, Eye, Fighting

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• Even before winning its majority, Harper's Republican-styl e Conservative party - well to the right Canada's traditional Progressive Conservative Party - managed to win minority governments with less than 40 per cent of the popular vote.

  Linda McQuaig

  Party, Winning, Popular Vote

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• The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.

  Denis Thatcher

  Country, Spring, Party

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• For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.

  Tim Yeo

  Time, Party, Firsts

  "Clarke bids for Tory leadership", www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2005.

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• I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader.

  Daniel Hannan

  Party, Support, Leader

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• The historic role of the Conservative Party is to use the leverage of its political and diplomatic skills to create a fresh balance between the different elements within the state at those times when, for one reason or another, their imbalance threatens to disrupt the orderly development of society

  Edward Heath

  Party, Skills, Political

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• I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference

  Arthur Balfour

  Party, Advice, Conservative

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• Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

  Kingsley Amis

  Party, Mean, Political

  Kingsley Amis (1968). “Lucky Jim's politics”

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• The Conservative Party is a tax cutting party or it is nothing.

  John Redwood

  Party, Cutting, Conservative

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• I am not a Tory moderniser for I believe marriage can only be between a man and a woman. I shall not surrender my principles. I believe this bill is wrong. The consultation process was a complete sham. It is opposed by the established church. It has caused deep and needless divisions within the Conservative Party. There is no mandate for it. There are huge potential consequences... and the nation faces much more serious challenges which the government needs to address

  Gerald Howarth

  Party, Believe, Gay

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