194 Quotes filtered by politics
I really adored her, though by the time I met her she was already with David. She's gorgeous and we were all crazy about her. She's just very clever, very artistic and very beautiful.
Dominic West 27/04/2010
Category: Women in Politics
It's a bit like political Wag-ery, isn't it? It seems to me to be completely irrelevant.
Esther Rantzen 11/04/2010
Category: Women in Politics
We knew one day someone might remember them. We were hoping they would never appear, but they have. These things happen.
David Cameron 22/03/2010
Category: Women in Politics
I am just not a great fan of the Piers Morgan format. I would rather do something a bit more substantial.
David Cameron 18/02/2010
On Piers Morgan's interview with Gordon Brown.
Category: Leaders, Interviews, Labour Politicians (quotes about), Events
If I was in standard class I would not do work because people would be looking over your shoulder the entire time. There would be noise. There would be distraction... They are totally different type of people.
Sir Nicholas Winterton 18/02/2010
on MPs travelling first class
Category: Conservative Party, Class
Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
Indira Gandhi
Category: Politics is...
The reason that there are so few women politicians is that it takes too long to put make-up on two faces.
Maureen Murphy
Category: Women in Politics
We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.
Gordon Brown 1997
On Labour's 1983 election campaign.
Category: Speechmaking
As a politician, you only meet two types of people. People with problems, and people who are right.
Gyles Brandreth
Category: Politicians (as a species)
Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.
Sir Bernard Ingham 05/02/1986
Category: Gossip
Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you and a waste of time when people don't agree with you.
Ken Livingstone 03/2003
Category: Conviction
You can have all the ambitions in the world, but if you don't have the money to carry them out then they're just so much pipe smoke.
Helen Liddell 2001
Category: Ambition
Part of my dogsbody job during the 1983 election was choosing Mum's missile-proof clothes. They had to be disposable.
Carol Thatcher 2001
Category: Appearance
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
My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.
John Prescott
Category: Class
From now on it's downhill all the way.
Charles Kennedy 1999
Category: Leadership Elections, Leadership
There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality.
Tony Blair 2001
Category: Lifestyle
The politician's prayer is: May my words be ever soft and low, for I may have to eat them.
Norman Lamont 2001
Category: Politicians (as a species)
