John Redwood Quotes

The conservative movement was told to curl up in a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank you very much. Well, how things have changed.

I don't think the GOP is going to die; I think Trump is going to revive it.

There definitely comes a time where a fresh pair of eyes and fresh leadership would be good, and the Conservative Party has got some great people coming up - the Theresa Mays, and the George Osbornes, and the Boris Johnsons.

Once Brexit is delivered, we then need to think about how we can make the Conservatives look new and sound different.

The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.

If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.

Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.

One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system.

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.

I want to change Scotland, but the only way we can change Scotland is by changing the Scottish Labour Party.

We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition.

There is no denying or hiding the fact that over the years I moved from well on the right of the Conservative Party, much much more to its left, and therefore to the centre of the poltical spectrum.

I became a Conservative in the late 1980s because I could see that the Conservative party had transformed Britain's economy and our standing in the world compared to Labour in the 1980s.

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.

We [the Republican Party] are the change.

Conservatives must move from stop to go, from making points to making change.

The spectacle of American politics resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings or die.

There are times, perhaps once every thirty years, when there is a sea-change in politics. It then does not matter what you say or what you do. There is a shift in what the public wants and what it approves of.

What we need to do is bitch-slap the Republican Party. Get those guys heeding too, and if we have to, we’ll take it over to make it a true conservative party,

Before Donald Trump, the Republican Party was a majority conservative party with a white nationalist fringe. Now it's a white nationalist party with a conservative fringe.

People in both parties are restless for change, ready to break free of old patterns in Washington.

Because I really believe that Russia needs a fresh face, a new generation, to be seen on the political stage.

The Republican establishment may in fact be so desirous of getting rid of the Tea Party as its base, they may be willing to lose some elections in order to get rid of their base and put up a new base.