George Osborne Quotes

The Tory Party only talks to Brexiteers. It almost demonises... It comes across as dismissive of those who are not.

Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

It would be wrong for us to offer difference from the Conservative Party at the cost of credibility, but equally it would be wrong to offer credibility at the cost of being clear that there remain very fundamental differences.

What we need to do is bitch-slap the Republican Party. Get those guys heeding too, and if we have to, we’ll take it over to make it a true conservative party,

I think the Tories are doing - and are intent on doing - damage to things I hold dear.

If the Conservative party hasn't got room for Ken Clarke and Philip Hammond and 19 others, there is also a message there to millions of people who vote Conservative, that it's not a party for them. If you go down a divisive route, the scars will be very deep.

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.

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

You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!

We have to stress our conservative credentials and emphasize that we are the natural, national alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it can't break out of its Western box. The Alliance is at single-digit support in three quarters of the country.

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

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

The Tea Party is almost solely grassroots-based; business interests have almost no grassroots organization. The Republican Party has for too long been run on behalf of business interests who favor candidates the grassroots hate; the minute that those candidates begin to flag, only loyal Tea Partiers stand behind them.

Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome.

I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.

It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.

The Republican Party is not inclusive.

Our adversaries - our Democratic adversaries - like to be able to portray the Republican Party as a bunch of wingnuts - narrow based, always have some agenda that's not attractive to the public... That's easier for them, and more fun, than dealing with their own problems. And I think their problems are significant.

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.

The fact is that the Democratic Party in modern times has always had a conservative wing, one frequently as strong or stronger than its liberal wing, and as such, when progressives speak of the party as a vehicle that naturally belongs to them, as if by right - until conservatives stole it from them - they weaken progressivism.

It's not politically incorrect to say you're Republican or conservative.

The Republican Party has become the party of one branch of one religion.