Vince Cable Quotes

We will govern as if we had a majority. You simply carry on with your agenda.

I fear that, as conditions worsen, many will react to the failures of too much government by calling for even more government. Then there will be more and more lifeboats launched because fewer and fewer citizens know how to swim. Unlike some pendulums, political pendulums to not swing back automatically; they must be pushed. History is full of instances when people have waited in vain for pendulums to swing back.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

A minority government can't govern without support from other parties.

Under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, it is possible for other parties to change the direction of a government without bringing a government down.

One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing.

A real possibility now exists for a Government that is not led by either Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil

The Liberal Democrats will add a heart to a Conservative government and a brain to a Labour one.

Do you want to know what scares the Washington cartel? Actually, not remotely. I don't scare them in the tiniest bit. What scares them is you. What scares them is that old Reagan coalition is coming back together, of conservatives.

If there's one thing I'm not going to apologise for as the leader of the Liberal Democrats in government after 60 or 70 years of being out of government, it's that you just cannot avoid but deal with the world the way it is.

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.

Politics is cyclical.

Of course, running a coalition government in a country like India is a difficult task. More so when Congress leads the coalition, since most of the political parties were anti-Congress. To have a coalition, to run a coalition government, you require a lot of adjustments, a lot of flexibility.

In opposition, you move to the centre. In government, you move the centre.

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

I've been around long enough to not take seriously statements like I am about to be crushed. I'm about how do we seek re-election of the Australian government, how we prevent Tony Abbott from being elected. The bottom line is that it should be all hands to the pump rather than saying other, frankly negative and internally divisive things.

What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.

As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.

A week is a long time in politics.

The genius of American government consists of the creative tension between conservatives on the one hand and liberals on the other hand..

Politics is not like a teeter totter. Just because one party goes down, it does not mean that they other party goes up.

I am a conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a radical to remove all that is bad.

It [is] natural that in the vibration of the political pendulum, it should go from one extreme to another.

A federation of factions.

A party of order and stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.