Michael Portillo Quotes

I think the Conservative Party is a fantastic organisation, it's been a wonderful home for me.

Marine Le Pen belongs to her generation, I belong to mine. I got into politics for Marine Le Pen and with her as party leader.

I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away.

I hope to submit to the little pamphlet magazines here 'freelance' and perhaps shall join the Labour Club, as I really want to become informed on politics, and it seems to have an excellent program. I am definitely not a Conservative, and the Liberals are too vague and close to the latter.

I never thought of joining politics, but found AAP as perfect choice for someone like me.

I am such a political person.

When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.

I'm a loyal Democrat.

I don't see myself in the political realm.

I'm not in politics.

I've been intrigued by politics my whole life. And, yes, I am very close to the Clintons. I was a Hillary person until I was an Obama person. And she was a Hillary person, too, until she was an Obama one, evidently.

I knew quite a lot about politics before I went to Parliament.

If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.

You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

I am not a political person, so I cannot comment on politics.

I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.

I liked Nixon fine, but Nixon was not a partier.

I am a Virginian, so naturally I am a politician.

I don't belong to an organized political party. I'm a Democrat.

Maybe unlike a lot of people who join the SNP today, I never had any expectation of a political career.

Politics is tricky for me. For most of my life, I didn't think it applied to me.

I had been born a Republican. My dad was an active Republican, but he was not active in politics and I really never was either. It's true that I did belong to that party, but it really had very little impact on my public work or my private views.

I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party.

I never imagined in my life that I will fight elections or form a political party.

I started thinking about getting into politics when David Cameron became leader.