Emily Thornberry Quotes

The Tory party is at is strongest when it is in tune with the hopes and aspirations of Britain's hard-working, law-abiding majority, and when it governs through clear Conservative principles.

I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.

There is no denying or hiding the fact that over the years I moved from well on the right of the Conservative Party, much much more to its left, and therefore to the centre of the poltical spectrum.

Politics have no relation to morals.

I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.

The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are the next; the sovereign is the least.

To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.

I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

I'm a one-nation Tory.

I remember the day after the general election when Harold Wilson had lost, I remember quite clearly cycling from my house in Hutton along Long Ridings and feeling what a relief to live in a country with a Tory government again.

I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

For the state of our union to be strong, we need to place value in Americans.

I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.

Schools exist in America and have always existed to train responsible citizens of the United States of America. If they don't do that, it's very hard to hold us together as a country, because it's shared values that hold us together.

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.

Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

The idea that liberal societies are bound together by philosophical beliefs seems to me to be ludicrous. Philosophy is not that important to politics.

If citizenship means anything, it means sharing the pleasures and pains of American life.

There was once in this country a man by the name of Thomas Jefferson, supposed to be a Democrat—a man whose principles and policies are not very prevalent among Democrats today.

In the light of this monstrous crime we can see that in a free country, which we are and intend to be, unrestrained speech and thought are inherently subversive. Democracy can be made to work only when the bonds of the community are inviolate, and stronger than all parties and factions and interest and sects.

A nation need not be a mob of slaves, clinging to one another through fear, and for the most part incapable of self-government, and begging to be led; but it might consist of vigorous self-reliant men, knit to one another by innumerable ties, into a strong, tense, and elastic organization.