Patricia Hewitt Quotes

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

As a lifelong Republican it's time for me and everybody else to reclaim the soul of the Republican Party.

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

One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system.

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.

The party has to be rebuilt on all levels. In a way, maybe it's to be expected when you've had a governor in office for 12 years and he and his people are stepping down.

I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.

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.

The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.

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

We call for a hostile takeover of the Republican Party!

I think that in the eyes of the nation we both can and will oppose the whole aristocratic party and when the time comes, we shall do it openly … and eventually bring the whole affair into the open.

I don't think the GOP is going to die; I think Trump is going to revive it.

The Republican establishment may in fact be so desirous of getting rid of the Tea Party as its base, they may be willing to lose some elections in order to get rid of their base and put up a new base.

The SNP became a minority government in 2007, then a majority one in 2011. But Labour viewed what was happening as some kind of aberration. They felt the problem wasn't theirs: they didn't have to change; the Scottish people had just gone down this wrong road, and if they waited long enough, they would find their way back.

Labour has to be a big tent that appeals to everyone - not just its activists.

I am inclined to believe that it would be easier to build a new party than to save the Democratic Party from itself.

I was the original moderniser in the Conservative Party, telling it, 'No change, no chance.'

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

The Workers Party rose to power when the Western Left began its descent.

I look at my own party, and I see that we've taken this technocratic, academic, elitist liberal class philosophy as far as it can go, and we got our butts kicked - and I don't know what else to do other than get involved myself.

The Democratic Party has to transform itself. We can't just pop up every two or four years and hope people will support us.

I think it is commonplace for parties to change candidates and reshuffle ministries to bring in new faces.

New Labour has systematically alienated section after section of the coalition we need to win and retain power.

AAP was formed to expose the Congress's scam. We could never think of an alliance with the Congress, but to fight the BJP we have to think of something like that.