Dennis Skinner Quotes

I don't agree with the Tories on most things.

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

You can play golf with liberals, be neighbors with them, go out to dinner. I just don't want them in power.

I'm a proud Republican - there's no issue with that at all, so why can't I be a proud Republican and just try to solve problems?

I'm always happy to see one of my Republican colleagues make a mistake.

Even though you're a member of the wrong party, you've got some great ideas.

I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest.

While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.

I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.

I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine.

My husband is a Democrat, and I am a Republican, so our political ambitions are on opposite ends.

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

We are America. They [Democrats] are not America.

I'm pretty happy not to be an insider anymore. There's just no common ground. I don't know if it's distrust or that the politics is substantially more partisan than the public. But there's no pressure to make a grand bargain on fiscal matters, on growth, on anything.

Any Republican who says he can work with Hillary Clinton is a traitor to the nation.

It's been interesting seeing how vulnerable Obama is: not the secure president I thought he was or the strong leader that many people hoped he would be. He's a conciliator. But I've been listening to the Republican primary debates, and they're a bunch of lunatics. Just crazy.

I would rather sit down with a Hollywood liberal any day than simply surround myself with fellow conservatives.

You can't work across party lines when there aren't many of them. So I'm going to work across Republican Party lines because there are a lot of divisions in the Republican Party.

I don't believe all Republicans are bad.

A lot of Democrats like to play the 'If we were Republicans' game. I usually hate it; I don't want to behave like the Republicans do.

I don't hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country. I really do.

The Republicans do not look on the Democrats as the evil empire.

In the history of the nation, there has never been a political party so ridiculous as today's Democrats. It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc.

When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.

Everybody in this race is against Obama, okay? So saying you're against Obama, against Obamacare, all the rest, it's all fine, well and good, except it doesn't move you forward.