50 Quotes filtered by elections
The election was lost not in the three weeks of the campaign but in the three years which preceded it...in that period the Party itself acquired a highly unfavourable public image, based on disunity, extremism, crankiness and general unfitness to govern.
Denis Healey 11/09/1983
Category: 1983 General Election
Actually, I vote Labour, but my butler's a Tory.
Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1945
To a Tory canvasser
Category: Class, Canvassing
The longest suicide note in history.
Gerald Kaufman 30/03/1983
Describing the 1983 Labour manifesto.
Category: 1983 General Election, Manifestos
What happens in Bermondsey on February 24th will be a pointer to the rest of the country as far as Labour's prospects are concerned.
Peter Tatchell 18/02/1983
Category: By-Elections
If the British public fall for this I will say it will be stark staring bonkers.
Lord Hailsham 12/10/1964
On the 1964 Labour manifesto.
Category: Manifestos
My God! It is dispiriting canvassing these dumb idiots. They are just sheep.
Harold Nicolson 04/03/1948
Category: Election Campaigning
I actually enjoy canvassing, as it does good. This is one of the advantages of being Labour. I have no hesitation in penetrating working-class houses, and they are so grateful and loyal... I am so glad I belong to the Party now. I really feel much more comfortable as a Labour man.
Harold Nicolson 29/02/1948
Category: Election Campaigning
If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.
George W Bush
Category: Foot in Mouth, Election Campaigning
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
George W Bush
Category: Voter Turnout
The Labour Party can go into the next election united behind the most radical manifesto on which we have ever campaigned.
Roy Hattersley 03/1983
Category: 1983 General Election, Manifestos
It is inconceivable for Labour to lose this election.
James Callaghan 05/05/1979
Category: 1979 General Election
You were expecting me after all. On the way here I saw a cinema billboard which said: "The mummy returns.
Margaret Thatcher 28/05/2001
Category: 2001 General Election
Mr Enoch Powell, who refused to stand at the General Election, said last night on the BBC Radio Any Questions programme, that he had won the election.
Anonymous 09/03/1974
Category: 1974 General Elections, Boasting
Denis Healey: You're going to cut and run
Margaret Thatcher: The Right Honourable Gentleman is afraid of an election is he? He is frightened, frightened, frit!
Margaret Thatcher 05/1983
Category: 1983 General Election, Repartee
I keep telling my Tory colleagues: don't have any policies. A manifesto that has policies alienates people. In 1979 the manifesto said nothing which was brilliant.
Michael Heseltine
Category: 1979 General Election, Manifestos
We have made too much of one or two people, and we think that they can win or lose elections for us. Don't be depressed if one particular person transgresses. It doesn't lose an election unless the Party loses faith in itself.
Margaret Thatcher 1963
Category: Winning & Losing
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 05/1979
Speaking ironically on his contribution to Margaret Thatcher's first election victory
Category: 1979 General Election
I think Essex Man will vote for a Conservative Government.
Margaret Thatcher 04/1992
Category: 1992 General Election
We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.
Margaret Thatcher 06/1987
Category: 1987 General Election
