Nicola Sturgeon Quotes

Well the truth is, Republicans didn't just lose a few elections, we lost our way.

If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion.

Governments usually end not with a bang but with a whimper, as the Conservatives learned in the 1990s. Support and authority erodes over time until there is a final collapse of support and pivotal electoral shift.

More people deserted our party and we have never recovered.

The Labour Party in 2011 was in an exceptionally bad place. We'd been hammered in an election. We didn't see the scale of it coming.

Republicans didn’t lose their majority. We lost our way.

The French Socialist Party is not merely dying, but it is already dead.

A lot of Labour people are telling me Labour is in poor shape.

I feel sorry for generations of Labour voters and supporters who must look and wonder what on earth has gone wrong and what Labour is for.

Parties don't lose overnight, there is a gradual erosion of their base and electoral machine, which leads to sometimes cataclysmic defeat.

I take UKIP very seriously. The truth is that UKIP presents an electoral challenge to all political parties. The way to defeat UKIP is not to be a better UKIP but to be a better Labour Party.

The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.

When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.

I want to change Scotland, but the only way we can change Scotland is by changing the Scottish Labour Party.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

We will renew our party, to rebuild our land - and we will do it by being a better Labour, real Labour, Scottish Labour.

The Scottish Labour Party should work as equal partners with the U.K. party, just as Scotland is an equal partner in the United Kingdom. Scotland has chosen home rule - not London rule.

In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government.

Tony Blair will probably get thrown out by his party.

The Scottish Labour Party and its renewal are more important than me.

The British people don’t want me anymore.

This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans

If Labour ends up on the scrapheap of history, it will do so because of its own foolishness and self-inflicted wounds. What party in its right mind would allow a combination of far-left enemies, militant trade unions and first-time supporters to decide its fate?

The JD, as a party, is dead.

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.