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UK Politics Quotations Click  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 politicsAmis, Kingsley One of this government's most outrageous lies is that diversity in Europe is impossible and that political integration is inevitable. Nothing in politics is inevitable, not if you fight it hard enough.Ancram, Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.Anderson, Clive I remember hearing him talk and thinking 'You ain't getting anywhere with those ideas kid.' But now Blair is doing things that politicians I grew up with would never have dared to even think about.Banks, Tony I did not enter the Labour Party forty-seven years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr. Mori, Dr. Gallup and Mr. Harris.Benn, Anthony (Tony) Wedgwood The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change himBevin, Ernest That the king can do no wrong, is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitutionBlackstone, Sir William Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each otherBlackstone, Sir William Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.Blair, Tony Charles Lynton But what has come home to me more than anything else is the utter futility of Opposition. I did not join the Labour Party to protest. I joined it as a party of government and I will make sure that it is a party of government.Blair, Tony Charles Lynton I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.Blair, Tony Charles Lynton Should not America belong to this country?If we have equity, wisdom, and justice, it will belong to this country; if we have it not, it will not belong to this country. Burke, Edmund Replying during a debate in Parliament on taxing the American Colonies So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-poweruful to be impotent.Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Mr Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him workChurchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer On Joseph Chamberlain When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticise or attack the Government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at homeChurchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer A modest man, who has much to be modest aboutChurchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer On Clement Atlee An empty taxi arrived at 10 Downing Street, and when the door was opened, Atlee got outChurchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer On Clement Atlee I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never livedChurchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer On Stanley Baldwin He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happenedChurchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer On Stanley Baldwin He looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipeChurchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer On Neville Chamberlain Entering the Commons washroom, Churchill deliberately took up position at the opposite end of the urinal to PM Clement Attlee, who asked:"Feeling stand-offish today are we, Winston?" "That's right" replied Churchill. "Every time you see something big, you want to nationalise it." Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinnerDisraeli, Benjamin An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmenDisraeli, Benjamin « Previous Page | Next Page » |
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