Grant Shapps Quotes

There never was a time when the services of those who possess talents, integrity, firmness, and sound judgment, were more wanted in Congress.

I think you find amongst ordinary people there are a lot of people that are really talented.

I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader.

For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals.

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

Every black comedian in the country knew what I could do. But that doesn't mean everyone else is paying attention.

Whether it was in the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher, the 1950s under Churchill and Macmillan or in the early days of the Cameron administration, when our party has spoken for the people we have won.

I think there's so many actors out there that we see and we know as one thing but are capable of so much more.

I think it's absolutely extraordinary that any Conservative MP considered even for one minute installing Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street.

No player at the beginning of his career knows how good he can be.

Margaret Thatcher always felt like an outsider in her party.

Over the years, Democrats have had a lot of very talented individuals, but they have lacked fighters.

I will always believe that my vote, and the votes of my Lib Dem colleagues, are the best thing I can do to save this country from a no-deal Brexit and save it from Boris Johnson.

The fundamental question is is the Conservative Party leadable

I can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

The public will not forgive us if their wish to leave is subject to a bitter and a divisive Conservative Party leadership race between Remain and Leave camps.

I learned early that business is business and politics is politics. The proof is how few important businessmen have made good politicians. They may think that they are very smart about everything because they made millions of dollars by digging a hole in the ground and finding oil, but the talent and luck needed to become rich are not the same talent and luck needed to succeed on Parliament Hill.

There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.

The trouble with Democrats is that they all want to run for President

I'm always surrounded by smart talented people. I had talented partners. Stan Latham for one. Talent scouts.

My task, as a member of this parliament and a 30-year member of the Australian Labor Party, as its former leader, as its former foreign minister and its former prime minister, is to now throw my every effort in securing Julia Gillard's re-election as Labor prime minister at the next election.

I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.