Amber Rudd Quotes

Factions are a sign of illness in a party.

Miliband failed us, his Labour supporters. And Labour will now, because of him, be in a disaster zone for a long time.

There are very good people in the Labour Party who I would like to see in leadership.

I now believe Malcolm Turnbull is worse than Tony Abbott.

I believe Theresa May has failed as leader of our party, which she threatens to destroy.

I would do whatever I could to make Jeremy Corbyn more electable, but you've got to give me something to work with, mate.

We have no leadership. And honestly, that starts with Secretary Hillary Clinton.

Lincoln and the Government are imbecile and played out.

Actually I vote Labour, but my butler's a Tory.

Bush is an incompetent leader. As a matter of fact he is no leader at all.

Every kingdom divided against itself shall be desolated.

The crowd that is running Washington today has had 12 years and it failed

The longer political leaders shy away from the tough decisions, the greater the chance that there will be a lot more of them.

When the economy gets wobbly, people pay attention to the leadership failures.

If the Congress fails then American democracy is dysfunctional.

You see the problem of an unstable White House from the outside and worry about it. But from the inside, it is 50 times worse.

The tragedy is that political leaders failed so badly at delivering what Iraqis clearly wanted - and for that, a great deal of responsibility lies with Prime Minister Maliki.

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 reality is I have a job as a national party chair that, one, requires a thick skin. It requires me to be able to absorb the body blows so our candidates can stay above the fray.

Russia has nothing: no successful politics or economy.

I used to do stand-up, actually. I had a ten-minute routine I did for a thing called 'Stand Up for Labour' where we'd go around different seats and use comedy to raise money. I stopped doing this routine when I started running for mayor.

On many issues, Jeremy Corbyn and I are in agreement.

All of my parents' friends worked in public sector jobs. The teachers at my school were quite often card-carrying members of the Labour Party and it just was not part of the culture to approve of what the government was doing.

Unlike Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party, I am not ideologically obsessed with the structure of our rail network; for me it is a matter of practicality.

I cannot be clearer about this. I am not in politics, let alone Labour's shadow cabinet, to keep things as they are.