Quotes About The Tory Party

#1. 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.

Simon Hoggart

#2. Disloyalty is the secret weapon of the Tory Party.

Julian Critchley

#3. It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.

Rory Bremner

#4. No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Aneurin Bevan

#5. It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.

Harold Wilson

#6. I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.

Nigel Farage

#7. Yes, cannabis is dangerous, but no more than other perfectly legal drugs. It's time for a rethink, and the Tory party - the funkiest, most jiving party on Earth - is where it's happening.

Boris Johnson

#8. Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.

Benjamin Disraeli

#9. Not once in my life has the Tory Party come anywhere close to winning an election in Scotland, and yet, for more than half my life, we have had a Tory government. That is wrong and undemocratic.

Nicola Sturgeon

#10. They [Andrea Leadsom and Theresa May] both went to state schools, they are both women, hey, that's pretty quirky for the Tory party. Isn't this the new sort of Tory party ?

Tim Loughton

#11. The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.

Tony Benn

#12. The task ahead of us will be extremely challenging as the Tory party continue with their austerity agenda and as we continue to resolve the issues of the past and build unity, reconciliation, and equality.

Martin McGuinness

#13. In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.

Karl Rove

#14. We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.

D.T. Suzuki

#15. The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to natural as well as to civil history. They denote the temper and constitution and mind of different individuals.

Thomas Jefferson

#16. There's a belief that since Africa got a raw deal from the colonial West, then the Chinese must be Africa's best friend. But the evidence doesn't show that, and the main criticism is that they are building infrastructure in exchange for Africa's resources in deals that are structured to favor China.

George Ayittey

#17. Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.

Neil Kinnock

#18. Is it not typical that we have a Tory Government that wants, just like its pals in the Labour Party, constantly to talk down Scotland's prospects?

Nicola Sturgeon

#19. Of course I want to lead [Tory] party. Of course I want to lead this party in order to put forward an alternative and lead this party to win the election as soon as it comes.

Jeremy Corbyn

#20. I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward and upward of their beings.

Francine Du Plessix Gray

#21. The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.

Boris Johnson

#22. I was proud to be a Tory Member of Parliament for twelve years, proud to represent Buckingham as a Tory, proud to have voted with my party 99% of the time as the record shows.

John Bercow

#23. You must take your chance.

William Shakespeare

#24. This government and the party that I lead will continue to argue an alternative to the Tory-Labour austerity.

Nicola Sturgeon