Competition is the most promising means to achieve and secure prosperity. It alone enables people in their role of consumer to gain from economic progress. It ensures that all advantages which result from higher productivity may eventually be enjoyed.
Ludwig Erhard
Category: Competition
It is government policy to phase out subsidies to nationalised industries. In line with this, the government hopes that the coal industry will be able to operate without the need for assistance apart from social grants.
Tony Benn 1974
Category: Subsidy, Nationalisation
The Conservative Party is a tax cutting party or it is nothing.
John Redwood 1995
Said during the 1995 Conservative leadership election.
Category: Conservative Party, Tax Cuts
There is no point in saving the currency if we lose the country that goes with it.
John Redwood 05/2003
Category: Euro (Single Currency), European Constitution
Conservatism must be based on allowing everyone to become an owner - equity for everyman.
John Redwood 1986
Category: Privatisation
It's not a case of joining the Euro: it's abolishing the pound.
John Redwood 1995
Category: Euro (Single Currency)
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.
Winston Churchill
Category: Profit
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
To be a Conservative is to prefer the tried to the untried, the fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the super-abundant, the convenient to the perfect present, laughter to utopian bliss.
Michael Oakshott 1962
Category: Conservatives are..., Conservatism, Conservative Thought
Poverty is considered quaint in the rural areas because it comes thatched.
John Gummer 18/02/1985
Category: Poverty, Rural Affairs
I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult.
Margaret Thatcher 06/2001
On the Blair government.
Category: New Labour
I don't know a lot about politics but I have great trust in him as leader.
Geri Halliwell 2001
Category: Tony Blair (quotes about)
A single European currency was first proposed by the Nazi Reichsbank to Hitler at the time of Dunkirk. Now it is EU policy.
Sir Peter Tapsell 2001
Category: Euro (Single Currency)
Let our object be our country, our whole country and nothing but our country.
Daniel Webster 1825
Category: English Identity, Patriotism
The Conservatives conserve what you have got, the Liberals are liberal with it and Labour gives it all away.
Ted Hunt
Category: Insulting Labour, Insulting Liberals, Conservatism
The most vital issue in British politics today is whether we really exist to serve the state or whether the state exists to serve us.
Brian Walden 1978
Category: State, The
It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job. It's a depression when you lose your own.
Harry Truman
Category: Unemployment
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
