David Miliband Quotes

In my view, the Conservative Party is the party best equipped to defend the British way of life.

The Republicans have a very traditional focus over and over again whether or not it's worked.

Watching the Commons tribute to Margaret Thatcher was like being suffocated inside a gigantic sticky toffee pudding, but one with nasty bogeys planted inside. There was much of the 'Margaret Thatcher who was lucky enough to know me,' especially from her own side of the House.

One of the most important things liberals don't understand about conservatism, obscured by too much lazy talk about conservatism's various 'wings,' is that its tenets form a relatively organic base for its adherents, where 'traditional morality' serves the interests of laissez-faire economics and vice-versa.

The Republican party should have learned its lesson -- that it must be a conservative party.

Paul Ryan is the gold standard for conservatism.

David Cameron is no Margaret Thatcher.

I'm known as a small-c conservative.

In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.

Myself, I'm a post-ideological conservative.

I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.

Conservatism is the politics of reality.

Conservative politics are not an a la carte menu.

Republicans are not going to replace left wing social engineering with right wing engineering.

A neo conservative is someone who is against communism but will accept big government and socialism.

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now!

The Conservative Party is a tax cutting party or it is nothing.

The Republicans in America are better for us. They are more consistent and predictable than the Democrats.

After Margaret Thatcher's funeral, I spoke at a tribute meeting organised by her supporters in a pub next to St Paul's.

Of course, it is the case that conservatism as I envisage it distances itself always from abstract conceptions and tries to find the concrete reality.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

There are libertarian conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and social conservatives. I feel conservative in terms of limited government, individual responsibility, self-sufficiency - that sort of thing.

We should not just talk about conservative principles, but we should actually advance them.

I was joking the other day that I'm American UKIP.

I'm a political conservative.