Conservatives Quotes

CONSERVATIVE, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.

The Tory Party…So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

He is collecting titles and whole Departments to add to his name. His title now amounts to, “The right hon. the Baron Mandelson of Foy in the county of Herefordshire and Hartlepool in the county of Durham, First Secretary of State, Lord President of the Privy Council and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills”. It would be no surprise to wake up in the morning and find that he had become an archbishop.

Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

Hillary Clinton somberly warns of a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. The New York Times has actually published a flowchart of the "neoconservative" cabal. Conservatives couldn't put together a three-car funeral without producing six books denouncing each other. It is doubtful two neoconservatives could agree on where to have lunch -- which is going to complicate their secret plans to trick the nation into perpetual war.

It's high time people realized we conservatives aren't all Johnny Hatemongers, Charlie Bible Thumps, or even - God forbid - George Bushes.

I was told beforehand my arrival was unscheduled, but on the way here I passed a local cinema and it turns out you were expecting me after all. The billboard read 'The Mummy Returns'.

Some Chancellors are macro-economic. Other Chancellors are fiscal. This one is just plain cheap.