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I'm sort of the Antichrist to the Conservative Party. -- Andrew Cuomo
Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party. -- Stockwell Day
The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream. -- David Miliband
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
The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects. -- Alan Moore
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
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
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
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
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
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
There is no denying or hiding the fact that over the years I moved from well on the right of the Conservative Party, much much more to its left, and therefore to the centre of the poltical spectrum. -- John Bercow
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
It would be wrong for us to offer difference from the Conservative Party at the cost of credibility, but equally it would be wrong to offer credibility at the cost of being clear that there remain very fundamental differences. -- Douglas Alexander
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
The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to political reform, we have a much greater tradition in the Liberal Democrats of social justice and fairness than the Conservatives do. -- Nick Clegg
Anya Hindmarch is indeed a handbag designer; she has the requisite fabulous life, tasteful home, and loving husband. She is also beautiful and self-deprecating, and has five children aged 5 to 20 and a philanthropic bent which spans causes from cancer care to Britain's Conservative Party. -- Kate Reardon
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
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
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
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
The fundamental question is is the Conservative Party leadable -- Michael Heseltine
The Conservative Party is a tax cutting party or it is nothing. -- John Redwood
I will never stand again for the leadership of the Conservative Party. -- Michael Howard
I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference -- Arthur Balfour
As Margaret Thatcher came up in the world, so the Conservative Party came down. -- Julian Critchley
Let's make it clear: the Conservative Party has no plans for new NHS charges. -- Margaret Thatcher
The Conservative Party's always stood in every seat and I think it's important to us. -- Theresa May
I myself share with the Conservative Party a profound dislike for such fandangles as proportional representation. -- Hugh Dalton
I am the last person whom it would be reasonable to expect to leave the Conservative Party. -- Enoch Powell
Under my leadership the Conservative Party will come back together in the interests of the whole country. -- Theresa May
I can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party. -- Michael Heseltine
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
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
People are crying out for a Conservative Party that is decent, reasonable, common sense and in it for the long term of this country. -- David Cameron
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
I am delighted to have won so much support from my colleagues. The Conservative Party can come together - and under my leadership it will. -- Theresa May
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
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
I'm not 'worked up' so much as 'fed up' with the rat faced whores in the Conservative Party who neglect to invite me to announcements in my riding. -- Pat Martin
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
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
There are some sentences you cannot see yourself ever writing. 'I heartily endorse the Conservative Party' would be one. 'I look forward to Justin Bieber's new record' would be another. -- John Niven
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
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
The Conservative Party has one overriding concern in foreign policy, and that is the growth of Communist power and influence in the world, and the dangers it can bring for all of us. -- Reginald Maudling
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
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
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
One of the big weaknesses of the Conservative Party is not just their ignorance of and lack of effective response to the cost-of-living crisis but a more fundamental error about what makes for success in the 21st century. -- Douglas Alexander
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
56,000 companies have already benefited from the schemes that we have brought in. If we have taken the advice of the Conservative Party, no money would have been used. As Barack Obama said only yesterday, doing nothing is not an option. -- Gordon Brown
[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
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
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
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
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
Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard? -- Harriet Harman
My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government. -- Peter MacKay
The Conservative party, the modern Conservative party, is on the side of people who want to work hard and get on. -- George Osborne
I became a Conservative in the late 1980s because I could see that the Conservative party had transformed Britain's economy and our standing in the world compared to Labour in the 1980s. -- Andrew Lansley
I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues. -- Zac Goldsmith
The Republican Party, right now, is a conservative populist party. -- Mara Liasson
I've become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy, -- Richard Posner
I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party. -- Vivienne Westwood
Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party. -- William Hague
I remember my Republican Party as fiscally conservative, as caring about the environment. -- Lincoln Chafee
So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party. -- Bob Inglis
The Republican Party cannot win the White House anymore with just conservative and Republican votes. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The Republican Party cannot win the White House anymore with just conservative and Republican votes. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The Republican Party and the conservative free market movement have been presidentially focused for too long. -- Grover Norquist
If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion. -- Jerome Corsi
Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
Only our own strength, a strong conservative party, can prevent Red-Red-Green from taking power at the federal level in 2017. -- Angela Merkel
I am not a libertarian, and I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement. -- Rick Santorum
It's fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism. -- Mitt Romney
I'm a total Republican, but I've never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They're a large but dwindling part of the Party. -- Roger Stone
This is not the party of Reagan. Today the conservative movement took a backseat to liberal Democrats in the state of Mississippi. -- Chris McDaniel
I'm a conservative Republican, and I'm not a member of the Tea Party Caucus, but I have very good friends that are. -- Austin Scott
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
When I hear Governor Mitt Romney in his speech talk about how the Republican Party must stand for legitimate conservative values. They don't. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
When I hear Governor Mitt Romney in his speech talk about how the Republican Party must stand for legitimate conservative values. They don't. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The Republican Party and the conservative movement cannot unify around a single proposition, and the Democrats easily do. They have total contempt for us. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The Republican Party and the conservative movement cannot unify around a single proposition, and the Democrats easily do. They have total contempt for us. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Conservative activists, Tea Party activists, are threatening Donald Trump that if he chooses Reince Priebus, he will lose much of his base of support. -- George Stephanopoulos
How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties. -- Roger Stone
One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues. -- Hanna Rosin
I don't think the Republican Party, or I should say the Republican Party as the vehicle for modern American conservative ideas, survives with Donald Trump. -- Bret Stephens
I brag on the Democratic Party. We're libertarian on social issues, it's live and let live. Fiscally, we're conservative and responsible, and were environmentally conscious. -- Mark Udall
Nixon was a conservative who's way more liberal than his party can admit, and Obama's a liberal who's way more conservative than his party can admit. -- John Fugelsang
I'm not that conservative. I do feel - I guess I'm more of a Democrat at heart, although I've never affiliated myself with a particular party. -- Kathy Bates
There's a good old boys' network out there that's hard to penetrate and it's not always in the best interest of the party or for conservative principles. -- Sarah Steelman
I have a voice: I want to share my beliefs about how the conservative movement and the Republican party can regain its footing, because we've lost our way. -- Jeb Bush
I think a lot of people in the Conservative party came from other parties. There wouldn't be a Conservative party today if people hadn't come from other parties. -- Tim Powers
I think others may look at the uniqueness of my candidacy, the fact that I'm an African-American, conservative tea party Republican, and somehow race injects itself into the conversation. -- Niger Innis
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
I'm an intellectual Thatcherite, just as I was an intellectual Powellite, and I think it important that the Conservative party should be in good hands and that it should win elections. -- Maurice Cowling
John Boehner was and is an unprincipled ward-heeler who simply couldn't weather the transition of the Republican Party from a corporatist party with a sizable conservative base to a purely conservative party. -- Alex Pareene
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
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

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