Conservative Party Quotes

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

  Stockwell Day

  Party, Two, Conservative

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• 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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• 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 fundamental question is is the Conservative Party leadable

  Michael Heseltine

  Party, Fundamentals, Conservative

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• If political correctness has achieved one thing, it’s that it has made the Conservative party cloak their inherent racism behind more creative language

  Stewart Lee

  Party, Racism, Creative

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• In the Conservative Party we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us it is not who you are, who your family is or where you come from that matters, but what you are and what you can do for your country that counts.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Party, Class

  Margaret Thatcher (1989). “The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988”

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• Conservative Party membership has almost halved since David Cameron become leader. The truth is the Tories are financially reliant on, and as a result are governing on behalf of, an ever-shrinking class of people. The more they attack working peoples’ attempts to have some influence on the political landscape, the more they reveal that they govern for the millionaires, not the millions.

  Len McCluskey

  Party, Class, People

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• [Is the Conservative Party still the Nasty Party?] I said it was perceived as the Nasty Party. And is it? I don't think that it's a phrase that people today would apply to the Party. I think that the perception of the Party has changed.

  Theresa May

  Party, Thinking, People

  Source: conservativehome.blogs.com

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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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• The Conservative Party's always stood in every seat and I think it's important to us and I’m personally very pleased that we plan to continue to run candidates in Northern Ireland as well.

  Theresa May

  Party, Thinking, Important

  "The Conservative Party’s always stood in every seat, and I think it’s important to us". Interview with Paul Goodman and Mark Fox, conservativehome.blogs.com. February 16, 2011.

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• I am the only candidate capable of delivering these three things as prime minister, and tonight it is clear that I am also the only one capable of drawing support from the whole of the Conservative party.

  Theresa May

  Party, Drawing, Support

  "Tory leadership race: May takes big lead as Fox and Crabb drop out" by Anushka Asthana, Rowena Mason and Peter Walker, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2016.

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• I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Party, Eight, Years

  "Clarke lines up backers for leadership" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2005.

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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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• I want to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, a party that will promote true conservative values and principles. I can tell you right now, I am not the merger candidate. I am not interested in institutional marriages with other parties.

  Peter MacKay

  Party, Principles, Want

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• A conservative party that reshapes its self-presentation according to the suggestions of the liberal media, of course, may very well get what such lack of courage deserves. Having been told by their opponents for years that the key to Republican victory was a softening of the message and more smiles, Republicans have now apparently taken a big dose of this medicine. One might counsel more caution in accepting medicine from one's enemies.

  Alan Keyes

  Taken, Party, Liberal Media

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• I hope that in the days to come, I'll be able to convince my colleagues that I should be one of the candidates that Conservative party members can choose from.

  Michael Gove

  Party, Able, Conservative

  "Conservative leadership election: Theresa May wins more than half of MPs' votes as Stephen Crabb pulls out and Liam Fox is eliminated" by Danny Boyle, Michael Wilkinson, Ben Riley-Smith, Szu Ping Chan, Steven Swinford, Peter Dominiczak, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 5, 2015.

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• So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different.

  Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking

  Running, Party, Leader

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• The Conservative Party isn't electing a leader in opposition after losing a general election who can build up over five years and gain experience. We're electing somebody who's going to be our prime minister in two months' time, and that's why it's very important we have somebody with strong experience, who's good at working with the international community and can hit the ground running.

  Chris Grayling

  Running, Strong, Party

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• 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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• Under my leadership the Conservative Party will come back together in the interests of the whole country.

  Theresa May

  Country, Party, Together

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn't soon cometh.

  Kathleen Parker

  Party, Wings, Branches

  "Heresies and Other Truths". townhall.com. November 19, 2008.

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• On the question of taking credit for what goes right and blame for what goes wrong - having led the Conservative party for four years, I have never heard of this notion before.

  William Hague

  Party, Years, Credit

  "The SAS and the farmers" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2011.

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• I myself share with the Conservative Party a profound dislike for such fandangles as proportional representation.

  Hugh Dalton

  Party, Profound, Conservative

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• As Margaret Thatcher came up in the world, so the Conservative Party came down.

  Julian Critchley

  Party, World, Conservative

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