194 Quotes filtered by politics
I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.
John Major 25/11/1990
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about), Leadership
May I say that my Right Honourable Friend the Prime Minister is looking jolly nice today?
Edwina Currie 07/1990
At Prime Minister's Questions just after announcing she thought the Prime Minister should retire
Category: Appearance, Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
To be loyal means 100% acceptance of Government thinking: any dissent, or even admittance of doubt, is treachery and treason. After nine years as party leader and five as Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher still asks the question, 'Are you one of us?', by which she means, 'Are you completely free of any doubt as to the utter rightness of everything we are doing?' It will come as no surprise that I am not 'one of us'.
Francis Pym 1986
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about), Loyalty
Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.
Margaret Thatcher
Category: Conservative Thought, Inspiration
This business of the working class is on its way out I think. After all, aren't I working class? I work jolly hard, I can tell you.
Margaret Thatcher 1969
Category: Class
I want to get totally rid of class distinction. As someone put it one of the papers this morning: Marks and Spencer have triumphed over Karl Marx and Engels.
Margaret Thatcher 06/05/1985
Citizenship should be based on those who have a close and real relationship with this country and its inhabitants.
Margaret Thatcher 04/11/1976
Category: Citizenship
Ladies & Gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my green chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my hair softly waved. The Iron Lady of the western world? Me? A cold warrior? Well, yes - if that is how they wish to interpret my defence of the values and freedom fundamental to our way of life.
Margaret Thatcher 20/01/1976
Category: Cold War, Appearance
A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned income.
Roy Jenkins 1952
Category: Equality, Nationalisation
Like the French - they'll veto anything even before they've seen it.
Rod Richards 04/2003
On Plaid Cymru
Category: Welsh Politics
The Scottish Labour Party I lead in parliament will not forget the lessons of the past four years. We will move on. The things we have done well, Labour will build upon. The things we got wrong we will change.
Jack McConnell 02/05/2003
Category: Scottish Politics
I will be able to pay my phone bill and council tax as my wages were arrested last week. I'm going to bring something different, something colourful to the parliament. It will just be like double trouble, we are going to stir it up a wee bit.
Rosie Kane 02/05/2003
On being elected to the Scottish Parliament.
Category: Scottish Politics
This was a muddle. It was certainly not a fiddle.
Henry McLeish 2001
On the office expenses scandal which forced his resignation as Scotland's First Minister.
Category: Scottish Politics
Silence is regarded as a sort of sin now, and it has to be filled with a lot of gossip and soundbites.
Douglas Hurd 2001
Category: Gossip
In the end leaders are leaders. They get the credit and they get the blame.
Michael Heseltine 2001
Category: Leadership
A small, balding, ex-communist, Celtic-supporting, Catholic and Unionist. Therefore everyone seems to hate me.
Dr John Reid 2001
Category: Appearance
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
Vaclav Havel
Category: Truth
Politicians are like nappys. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.
Anonymous
Category: Politicians (as a species)
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges, even where there are no rivers.
Nikita Khruschev
Category: Politicians (as a species)
