Nicola Sturgeon Quotes

I don't agree with the Tories on most things.

I'm tempted to say that Conservative governments are normally elected to clear up the mess left by Labour governments.

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

The thing is, and Americans are starting to realize this now, that while street gangs are violent, the Democrats and Republicans are worse. They are worse because their decisions affect your life.

You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!

While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.

I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

The left has lost the common touch.

The Tea Party is almost solely grassroots-based; business interests have almost no grassroots organization. The Republican Party has for too long been run on behalf of business interests who favor candidates the grassroots hate; the minute that those candidates begin to flag, only loyal Tea Partiers stand behind them.

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

Certainly I feel like I'm the tip of the arrow at times because certainly the national media wants to talk about the fact that I'm a black Republican and some people think of that as zany that a black person would be a conservative but to me what is zany is any person black, white, red, brown or yellow not being a conservative.

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

I don't know how many parts I've lost because a lot of the politics in California are very conservative, and I'm fairly outspoken. I always tried to get as much politics in as I could, because I do believe in class struggle, and I think that's what's left out.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.

I'm sort of the Antichrist to the Conservative Party.

Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.

It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.

I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.

The fight is always the same within the Democratic Party, isn't it? The more things change, the more they stay the same.

It would be wrong for us to offer difference from the Conservative Party at the cost of credibility, but equally it would be wrong to offer credibility at the cost of being clear that there remain very fundamental differences.

The fact is that the Democratic Party in modern times has always had a conservative wing, one frequently as strong or stronger than its liberal wing, and as such, when progressives speak of the party as a vehicle that naturally belongs to them, as if by right - until conservatives stole it from them - they weaken progressivism.

My only thought about Margaret Thatcher is the same one I had about Ronald Reagan. I hated a lot of what they did, but once in a while a country just needs a change.