David Gauke Quotes

Conservatives like to talk about 'the strivers' who share what they like to think of as Conservative values. But as I found in my Blue Collar Tories research in 2012, such people no longer see the party as their natural ally.

Today's Republican party is too beholden to factions generally.

The Conservative party absolutely must not allow itself to be shut out of parts of the north of England.

The Conservative Party has abandoned conservatives.

The Tory Party only talks to Brexiteers. It almost demonises... It comes across as dismissive of those who are not.

The Democratic Party is at grave risk of completely marginalizing itself from the American voters by continuing to lean into its absolutist anti-enforcement positions.

As I spread my wings in politics, I discovered many Thatcher voters down south who were the same kind of people who loathed her in Scotland. They were puzzled by the Scots' antipathy, given the Falklands war and the strong militaristic history of the Highlands and elsewhere.

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

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

There's no such thing as a partisan base.

It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.

I think if you look all across the country, the so-called Blue Dogs are all gone to kennel. There are no more Blue Dogs, they're called Republicans. People would rather elect consistently conservative Republicans than Blue Dogs, who are only conservative when it's convenient.

There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout.

I think the danger with the liberal Left is seeing the Republican Party as a monolith.

Dogmatic ideological parties tend to splinter the political and social fabric of a nation.

When party crackups happen, they usually involve nativism.

Never again should we Democrats wear the livery of the conservative.

Every time there is a wave of new people coming into a political party, there has been an attempt to keep them out.

The Voting Rights Act was a seminal victory for our country and a great healing moment. But there are some who want to continue to drive divisions and create phony narratives.

The GOP's insoluble problem is that the multicultural, multiethnic, and multilingual country they created with their open borders appears not to like the brand of dog food the party sells.

I will not be voting for Donald Trump for president. This is not a decision I make lightly, for I am a lifelong Republican. But Donald Trump does not reflect historical Republican values nor the inclusive approach to governing that is critical to healing the divisions in our country.

I do not want to see, for any reason, the Tories resurgent in any way.

Once upon a time - in the days of Margaret Thatcher and John Major - I would have rejoiced in a Conservative Party landslide in Britain. But now, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's victory fills me with fear and foreboding.

Senator Brown and I have different philosophies as represented in our different ratings: I am a conservative, and he is a liberal.

The political parties have lost their loyalties.