Michael Ashcroft Quotes

We are now, as we always have been, decidedly and conscientiously attached to the Tory, and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative, party.

I believe Colorado needs representation from a conservative who has worked his way through the types of obstacles with which nearly all middle-class and lower-income people struggle.

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

Republicans are the only one who can carry the banner of what I think millions of Americans are saying.

I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.

I consider myself a right-winger and Gray was certainly one.

To all of you who are Republicans of long standing, I hope you appreciate that I always tried to stand for conservative values.

But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.

I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.

Conservative politics are not an a la carte menu.

The Republican establishment no longer stands for us.

Like my father, Trump also understands working-class Americans.

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.

The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.

Well, look, I'm as Tea Party as it gets.

Having parents who were hard working, blue collar, and staunchly independent, neither political party's positioning really impressed me.

In actual fact, I have always been a conservative cross, borne sadly by liberal friends.

I'm a total Republican, but I've never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They're a large but dwindling part of the Party.

I'm a Conservative, but I talk for the ordinary working classes. I get on with the boys at the pub, but I can also mix with Prince Andrew. I understand both levels. The toffs haven't lived in council estates; they've just known big mansions. How can they understand how the postman feels? I would never say no to becoming an MP.

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.

Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.

I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.

We in the Labour party owe it to the people we represent to make sure that we offer a choice at the next election between our Labour values and those of the Conservatives.

The GOP leaders are upset with me, but the Republicans around the district are thanking me for stepping up to the plate and giving them a choice in this election of a real common sense conservative Reagan Republican.

I'm an independent conservative. And what I mean by that - when I think we're right, I'm with us all the way, and I am a conservative. And I think my record reflects that.