Douglas Alexander Quotes

UKIP's biggest fight is with the Conservative Party.

The depth of concern people feel about UKIP is not always matched by depth of understanding.

We don't like to deal with people who are trying to kill the revolution. You need to hire a Republican!

European right-wing parties are in fact surprisingly fragmented, disagreeing over almost everything except ultranationalist sentiments and xenophobic opposition to non-European immigrants.

While Corbyn would not enjoy the comparison, he and Farage are the same beast - with very different heads.

Nigel Farage, the leader of the U.K. Independence Party, is a true populist; Senator Bernie Sanders, the former U.S. presidential candidate who campaigned for Hillary Clinton after losing his battle for the Democratic Party's nomination, is not.

Isn't it just heart-stopping and mind-numbing when you stop and realize that the Republican Party doesn't want to win?

We have to stress our conservative credentials and emphasize that we are the natural, national alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it can't break out of its Western box. The Alliance is at single-digit support in three quarters of the country.

Gilles Duceppe avoids making campaign promises altogether so he can emphasize that his Bloc Quebecois has only one objective: to prevent Harper from forming a majority government.

The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.

Our party cannot be all things to all people. It can't be. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's stop trying to curry favor with them.

Anytime James Carville, Paul Begala and David Axelrod hold hands and jump for joy, it's worth pondering how to turn their joy into tears.

The greatest danger for our people [Nazi Party members] is not to be found in Marxism but rather in our middle class parties.

You can’ t be a national party in America and be perceived as an anti-immigration party.

In the United States, it is easier to take over a party than to start a party.

Populism is strong in places with weak party systems because political parties exist precisely to form governments as well as legitimate oppositions. When identity politics predominates, populists will prosper.

Donald Trump may be unusually flamboyant, but his views are all too representative of the party that is about to nominate him for president.

Donald Trump is an extremist leader who came out of nowhere. He's self-financed, recruits through social media, attracts his followers with a radical ideology to take over the world, and is actively trying to promote a war between Islam and the West.

There are a lot of great people in UKIP.

Le Pen is a petit bourgeois nationalist.

I'd rather form my own party than ever join Ukip. We could call it the Widdy Mob. I'm joking.

The anti-European Tories were a fringe group - until they took over their whole party.

The difference between the BNP and Labour is that the BNP was always a fringe party, never a contender for power.

We will not try to out-Ukip Ukip. Labour is not going to offer false solutions, such as leaving Europe.

My aim is to project that the BJP is not only an alternative but a better alternative to the Congress.