Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.
Sir Bernard Ingham 05/02/1986
Category: Gossip
When I hear the name of Richard Body I hear the sound of flapping white coats.
John Major 1994
Category: Insulting Conservatives, Eurosceptic
It's being so cheerful as keeps him going.
Sir Bernard Ingham 1983
explaining to political journalists why Francis Pym had made a gloomy economic speech in the same week in 1981 that the Chancellor, Sir Geoffrey Howe reported signs of recovery.
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about)
The junk food of political journalism...all reshuffle stories are crap.
Alastair Campbell 1998
Category: Reshuffles
That well known semi-detached member of the Cabinet.
Sir Bernard Ingham 1986
explaining to political journalists how John Biffen, a member of the Cabinet, could have described the Prime Minister as being a liability to her party and should be replaced by a collective leadership.
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about)
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)
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
The EU will not stop wars: it wants an army to fight them.
John Redwood 2001
Category: Defence, War, Eurosceptic
There aren't many fathers around here...If someone is old enough to father a child, he should be old enough to help bring it up.
John Redwood 02/07/1993
Conservatism must be based on allowing everyone to become an owner - equity for everyman.
John Redwood 1986
Category: Privatisation
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
Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.
Ronald Reagan 01/1980
Category: Budgets, Public Spending
I have more government than I want, more government than I need, more government than I can afford.
John Redwood 06/2003
Category: What is Government
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
Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy.
John Redwood 1999
Category: Constitution
We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.
Denis Healey 20/10/1976
Category: Inflation, Unemployment
