Roger Scruton Quotes

I want to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, a party that will promote true conservative values and principles. I can tell you right now, I am not the merger candidate. I am not interested in institutional marriages with other parties.

And Republican women have always been the backbone of our party. We do the work, we are strong believers in conservative values. Having more of those voices in place at a state level is going to be a great improvement for us as a party.

During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake. One of them was the National Republican Convention in San Francisco, which produced the greatest disaster the Republican Party has ever known - Nominee Barry Goldwater.

To become Prime Minister of the country at this time is nothing to be pleased about. We are beset with difficulties.

The Republican party should have learned its lesson -- that it must be a conservative party.

I think if there aren't Republicans standing up to Trump and showing America that he does not represent the Republican Party, then he has the potential to ruin the brand and turn it into toxic waste for generations.

Miliband failed us, his Labour supporters. And Labour will now, because of him, be in a disaster zone for a long time.

My view is that Trump will not change the Republican Party, America's right-of-center party. If he brings in new followers, that's great, and well worth the effort, but he will not change the Republican Party.

I wish everybody in the Republican Party had rejected Mr. Trump and chosen someone else.

I didn't like the way Andrew Peacock was not supported in 1984. He'd done well in that election; he deserved to continue. But by the end of '85, he was out.

Paul Ryan is the gold standard for conservatism.

Conservatives are the heirs to the Founders' vision. But we have to act like it.

I joined a Republican Party that was used to losing, used to being browbeaten by the Democrats. I represent a totally different style.

If the party of Lincoln wishes to become the party of intolerance, selecting Trump to be its presidential candidate is a good way forward.

I'm choosing not to accept the Trumpification of the GOP as an irreversible fact.

As someone who has spent much of my life identifying as a conservative, I can't stand what American conservatism has become.

The CDU was a party that united different denominational and ideological currents. If the idea of a rightward shift means that we ignore those roots and only define ourselves as a conservative party, then I am strictly opposed.

I won the leadership of the Conservative Party as a pro-choice Conservative MP, one with a strong mandate.

The Conservative Party has abandoned conservatives.

I now believe Malcolm Turnbull is worse than Tony Abbott.

It's often been said that conservatism is successful because it chimes with these basic human instincts. It's time for us to ask fundamental questions about what the Conservative Party is for, and what it actually believes.

Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Newt Gingrich, and other conservative giants are the voices of the conservative movement's conscience. Every day, millions and millions of Americans - myself included - turn on their radios and televisions to listen to what they have to say, and we are inspired by their words and by their determination.

The name Noel Skelton is largely forgotten today, but his legacy in the Conservative Party in the 20th century was enormous.

I believe Theresa May has failed as leader of our party, which she threatens to destroy.

I see the Conservative party becoming more and more attractive to people from all different backgrounds, particularly because so many of the immigrant communities are people who work hard and get on in life... so I think they are naturally Conservative.