Anna Soubry Quotes

I am ashamed of some of Democrats in my own party.

The Democratic Party eats its young before the election, and then they weep and wail when they lose.

One of the reasons that I did not win reelection, was that I was unable to hold the Democratic Party together.

The Tory party is like a rugby union match in which all 30 players are wearing the same strip. They're not sure who they are grabbing round the knees, but they're having a lot of fun doing it.

The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.

I didn't have the base I needed to win the election.

In 2006 it was a horrible election year, and, you know, I lost. But I lost because I continued to be a constant conservative, and the last six years I was someone who was a national figure in the sense that I was the third ranking Republican in leadership and I had just run President Bush's campaign in Pennsylvania.

We lost everything. We even won our own constituency.

Mitt Romney is a nice guy. But, we know where nice guys finish in politics.

It would have been a very, very good thing if the next election after Margaret went we had lost.

There are no factions in the Liberal Party.

It hurts to lose an election.

Adversity in politics does not encourage cohesiveness, it seems. Deprived of the fruits of power, a national political party seems to break down into regional or other factions. Unity can only be regained by victory—yet victory is forestalled by disunity.

We are now, as we always have been, decidedly and conscientiously attached to the Tory, and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative, party.

I have been defeated for election often enough to know that the majority can be wrong.

We have lost the elections; and it is natural that each of us will believe, and say, it has been because his peculiar views was not made sufficiently prominent.

Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there is a flash of steel between the shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.

Honey, there go 20 million votes, but we’ll get over it.

House Speaker John Boehner has less sway over his caucus members than they have over him.

Romney had his chance. He should have won. He choked.

The last thing you want to do is go up against someone in your own party and certainly your own president.

We did it! Britain is no longer a member of the European Union. By 'we' I mean the 17.4 million Britons who voted Leave, Nigel Farage who fought for the cause for 25 years, Brexit Party MEPs, Tory Party members who were brave enough to desert their party in droves at the Euro-elections and, of course, the Daily Express.

When Margaret Thatcher was leader, she and Michael Heseltine were hardly soulmates, but she would not have allowed personal rivalry to take the heat off the Labour Party, whose own deep internal divisions are buried in other news now, nor would she have countenanced any attempt to have a show trial.

The Conservative Party has abandoned conservatives.

While Democrats may never adopt the policies of Ronald Reagan, they should follow his golden rule of politics closely. Reagan adamantly instructed his party members to never publicly criticize another Republican.