50 Quotes filtered by Elections
The mood of the country as a whole and the opinions of the people who voted Lib Dem should be considered important enough to trump the petty indulgences of Liberal Democract activists and other loons. A general rule: when choosing between fucking the public and fucking the base, successful political parties tell the base to go fuck themselves.
Alex Massie 25/04/2010
Category: Election Campaigning, Electoral Systems
It is such a shockingly short campaign to an America, our last presidential campaign lasted 18 months. Why could a country that fashions itself in the top five on earth take only a month to make a decision on their leader? A country that seems to enjoy politics so much more than my own seems to dispatch with their process so quickly...Maybe if I truly was a part of your system the whole process would make sense, but I doubt it.
Kiernan Ambrose 24/04/2010
Category: Election Campaigning
Peter Mandelson: "Obviously I feel entirely pig sick about it."
Ed Balls: "Peter does now know the signature tune to the programme because Yvette and I sang it to him this morning."
Andrew Neil: "Oh too much information. Go back to the cuts."
Peter Mandelson: "I'm leaving the campaign to join pig, Peppa Pig."
Peter Mandelson 24/04/2010
Category: Election Campaigning
He asked, 'Do you ever come down to London? If you ever come down you must come to No10 and meet me and Sarah...' Well I just looked at him. I didn't like to say it, but all I could think was, 'I don't think you'll be there.'
Gillian Duffy 02/05/2010
Category: Mistakes, Winning & Losing, Wise words
This is not the first social media campaign that has resulted in a big fail for the people doing it. You would expect some learning to be happening.
Rik Ferguson 23/03/2010
Category: Election Campaigning
Perhaps election fever is developing into something more like sleeping sickness, as the utter boredom of a contest in which almost all the attention seems to be on personalities and polls wears us all down. I just wish they would get on with it.
Norman Tebbit 03/2010
on the upcoming election
Category: Election Campaigning
You can fool some of the people all of the time,
and those are all the ones you want to concentrate on
George W Bush
Category: Oneliners, Standing for Office, Voter Turnout
Gracious...I haven't paid my bill. Good Conservatives always pay their bills. Not like the Socialists who run up other people's bills.
Margaret Thatcher 05/2001
Category: 2001 General Election
Oh, look! They're selling Liberals!
Norman Tebbit 06/2001
On spotting flip flops being sold at ? £4.99 a pair.
Category: Insulting Liberals, 2001 General Election
Bit worried. Bloody bad business with those polls. They just won't budge.
Denis Thatcher 06/2001
Category: 2001 General Election
You can vote for Blair or you can vote for Britain. You can't do both.
Michael Ancram 06/2001
Category: 2001 General Election
Voting for New Labour is like helping an old lady across the road while screaming 'Get a move on!' Even the Tories, who you could once rely on to be completely heartless are pretending to care.
Boy George 2001
Category: 2001 General Election, New Labour
I haven't got a butler. We just have three people who look after the house. End of story.
Shaun Woodward 2001
Category: 2001 General Election
John has some great strengths....such as his left hook.
Tony Blair 05/2001
On John Prescott.
Category: Labour Politicians (quotes about), 2001 General Election
It is not my policy to hit voters during the election.
William Hague 05/2001
After the Prescott punch.
Category: 2001 General Election, Election Campaigning, Violence
You're lucky that the sun is shining. But the sun always shines on Tony.
David Blunkett 05/2001
At the 2001 election campaign launch.
Category: Election Campaigning
I myself share with the Conservative Party a profound dislike for such fandangles as proportional representation.
Hugh Dalton 29/10/1945
Category: Proportional Representation
Some people eat eggs, I wear them.
John Major 1992
After an egg has splattered his suit during the election campaign.
Category: Election Campaigning, Demonstrations
Anyone who votes Labour ought to be locked up.
Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein 1959
While campaigning for Churchill in Woodford.
Category: Labour Party, Voting
If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday, I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, I want you not to be old.
Neil Kinnock 06/1983
Category: 1983 General Election, Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
