Peter MacKay Quotes

There are very good people in the Labour Party who I would like to see in leadership.

The fundamental question is is the Conservative Party leadable

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

It isn't personal per se to document what the Republican Party leadership is doing and how they're abrogating actual leadership.

For any new leader of any party at any given time it takes time if you are not in government to establish yourself.

It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.

I supported my friend Congressman Shuler over former Speaker Nancy Pelosi during our party's leadership elections in November citing a need for new leadership.

I parted ways with the Congress, a party that I served for so many years, because its leadership constantly humiliated me by ignoring my talent both as a leader and an administrator.

I believe I can lead this party from the front as a campaigning organization.

But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.

I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.

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

Any man who can carry a Republican primary is a man.

Party leaders must have not only the confidence of the party, but the confidence of the people.

Believing as I do in political parties, I had rather that the party ... should, in its conferences, make a declaration than to assume a leadership or take an individual position on the question.

I would advise Donald Trump to try to bring and unify this party together.

I am going to be prime minister.

I've stood down as UKIP leader. I'm not responsible for these people anymore.

If the party is a broad church, then it only has one priest. It was my job to keep it united and at the same time to ensure that I transform it into a modern liberal party.

I'm committed to winning. The leadership of the Liberal Party is always the gift of the parliamentary Liberal Party, and I never make any presumptions on it.

When Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party, he said, "New Labour is a new political party" - that was the phrase he used, and I'm so glad he said it because he set up his own party and I'm not a member of it.

This is a very crucial period and we have got five fantastic candidates. All of them would make excellent leaders of the Party.

If this [national Democratic Party] is a national party, sushi is our national dish. Today, our national Democratic leaders look south and say, "I see one-third of a nation and it can go to hell."

Vision and the ability to mobilize and inspire people at the grassroots. That's what the most important criteria is going to be for any DNC chair.

You'd know if I was the de-facto leader of the Democratic Party, because you'd go down to Walgreen's and buy a pack of blunts.