Liberal Party Quotes

• I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

  John Bright

  Party, Years, Reform

  Speech on April 28, 1859. The Times, p. 6, April 29, 1859.

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• Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me... And when you are a young man, you don't get a calculator out saying, 'Am I going to get to power?' You get propelled forward by idealism.

  Nick Clegg

  Party, Men, Joining

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• I'm not terribly focused on whether I even could ever become the Leader of the Liberal Party or the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the future.

  Alexander Downer

  Party, Leader, Deputies

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

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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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• I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.

  Dalton McGuinty

  Running, Party, Commitment

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• The Liberal Party of Canada has no monopoly on public service, we have no monopoly on virtue, and we have no monopoly on wisdom.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Party, Canada, Virtue

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The Liberal Party is and always has been an amalgam between the conservative and the liberal with a small L traditions. And so from time to time people will see it emphasising one more than the other. I think it is genuinely an amalgam between the two.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Party, Thinking, Two

  "Malcolm Turnbull, Member for Wentworth". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 30, 2010.

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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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• The Liberal Party abandoned the principles of reform and social liberalism and has become, instead, just another piece of political machinery in the service of corporatism.

  Eric Kierans

  Party, Political, Reform

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• Big money, big Liberal Party politics and big media are trying to get rid of us, of course, by letting Packer take over Fairfax - a media-only company. But we're hanging in there and doing the best job we can for our readers while we can.

  Margo Kingston

  Jobs, Party, Media

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• I believe the team of Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard is the best leadership team for the Liberal Party and therefore part of the best leadership team of the Coalition for the country.

  Kevin Andrews

  Leadership, Country, Team

  "Tony Abbott vows to fight Liberal leadership spill motion - live" by Gabrielle Chan, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2015.

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• If there is any emergence of a fourth party in British politics, it is the task of the Liberal Party to strangle it at birth.

  Cyril Smith

  Party, British Politics, Tasks

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• The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Party, Long, Support

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.517, Best Books on

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• The Liberal Party has dealt with the spill motion and now this matter is behind us, we think that when you elect a government, when you elect a prime minister, you deserve to keep that government and that prime minister until you have a chance to change your mind.

  Tony Abbott

  Change, Party, Thinking

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• The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women to meet as individuals, it becomes the duty of the government itself to find new remedies with which to meet them.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Party, Believe, Men

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.29, Best Books on

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• Well everyone's careers is a series of steps, but being the President of the Young Liberals or the President of a Liberal society at university is an important step in the Liberal Party in terms of being noticed and making your name known.

  George Brandis

  Party, Names, Careers

  Source: thebriefonline.atavist.com

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• I joined the Young Liberals when I was 16 and it was a good way for me to understand how the Liberal Party worked and to learn basic political skills and techniques.

  George Brandis

  Party, Skills, Political

  Source: thebriefonline.atavist.com

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• I really think that the Liberal Party is dead and that one will simply have to think of men and policies after the war - not of parties.

  John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair

  War, Party, Men

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• No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high. Whigs and Tories, Liberal party and Labour party - for what do they battle except their own prestige? It is not love of truth but desire to prevail that sets quarter against quarter and makes subserviency rather than the triumph of truth and the exaltation of virtue - but these moralities belong, and should be left to the historian, since they are as dull as ditch water.

  Virginia Woolf

  Party, Believe, Passion

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My father's values and vision of this country obviously form everything I have as values and ideals. But this is not the ghost of my father running for the leadership of the Liberal party. This is me.

  Justin Trudeau

  Running, Country, Father

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

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• The Muslim Brotherhood is a religiously conservative group. They are a minority in Egypt. They are not a majority of the Egyptian people, but they have a lot of credibility because all the other liberal parties have been smothered for 30 years.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Party, Years, Egypt

  "Fareed Zakaria GPS", cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. January 30, 2011.

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• If the question is do people (in the Liberal Party) believe that human beings are the main cause of the planet warming, then I'd say a majority don't accept that position.

  Nick Minchin

  Party, Believe, People

  "Malcolm and the Malcontents" by Sarah Ferguson, www.abc.net.au. November 09, 2009.

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• In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the lives of millions and useless ones can waste precious resources. An intellectual's responsibility for his ideas is to follow their consequences wherever they may lead. A politician's responsibility is to master those consequences and prevent them from doing harm. Michael Ignatieff, a former professor at Harvard and contributing writer for the magazine, is a member of Canada's Parliament and deputy leader of the Liberal Party.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Fun, War, Party

  "Getting Iraq Wrong". www.nytimes.com. August 5, 2007.

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• I think it's a typical hidden agenda of the Liberal party... They had the courts do it for them, they put the judges in they wanted, then they failed to appeal -- failed to fight the case in court... I think the federal government deliberately lost this case in court and got the change to the law done through the back door.

  Stephen Harper

  Party, Fighting, Thinking

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• There are no factions in the Liberal Party

  Tony Abbott

  Party, Factions

  SKY NEWS PVO NEWS DAY with Peter Van Onselen, www.minister.communications.gov.au. 20 January 2016.

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