Conservative Party Quotes - Page 2

• I was delighted that by campaigning throughout England, Scotland and Wales, addressing in all 39 public meetings, I had contributed to the victory of the Conservative Party at this general election.

  Edward Heath

  Party, Scotland, Victory

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• We need a good strong opposition and I don't know whether it's any coincidence that we need Angela Eagle in Labour and we need Theresa May to lead the Conservative party, both of whom of course are women.

  Anna Soubry

  Strong, Party, Eagles

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I call the Conservative Party now to a crusade. Not only the Conservative Party. I appeal to all those men and women of goodwill who do not want a Marxist future for themselves or their children or their children's children. This is not just a fight about national solvency. It is a fight about the very foundations of the social order. It is a crusade not merely to put a temporary brake on Socialism, but to stop its onward march once and for all.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Children, Block, Party

  Margaret Thatche's Speech to Conservative Party Conference, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 8, 1976.

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• It has become clear just how divided our nation is - between young and old, north and south and those with different education and work backgrounds. So it is clear to me that the next leader of the Conservative Party must be someone who can unite the country.

  Nicky Morgan

  Country, Party, Leader

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I trust that whoever leads the Conservative Party actually pays regard to my advice on how we should conduct ourselves and I personally will obviously support whoever eventually wins.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Trust, Party, Winning

  "Davis is as dead as a DD" by Bob Roberts, www.mirror.co.uk. October 19, 2005.

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• The public will not forgive us if their wish to leave is subject to a bitter and a divisive Conservative Party leadership race between Remain and Leave camps.

  Priti Patel

  Party, Race, Forgiving

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don't believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage.

  Adam Rickitt

  Trust, Jobs, Party

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

  Arthur Balfour

  Party, Advice, Conservative

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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