Tory Quotations

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.

No attempt 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.

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.

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.

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

I was looking at a photograph of the 1997 election campaign yesterday, and I thought: 'My God. Did I really have that hairstyle? And that Tory blue suit?'

It was a bit of a surprise when I became a Tory MP. My friends said it was a stupid idea.

Like a majority of the population and a majority of even Tory voters, I want the railways back in public ownership.

He is the Tory who can reach beyond the Tory tribe and take us back into government.

We switched things around a little bit. Now, the change is not all Chris (Landsom's) fault. We thought we would see what we could get Tory to do.

We're pleased that at least one influential Tory is talking about it, ... It's a big step in the right direction.

He is not just any old Tory MP - he is the architect of the Tory tax and spending plans over the last two years

People in Scotland don't take too kindly to being lectured by a Tory Chancellor.

Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments.

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.

We still wanted to get an inside game, we thought that was our strength tonight. But they made plays and Tory Jackson found the open man's hands. ... They had the momentum, they had that run and we just couldn't capitalize on anything.

At present there are more Tory candidates than I've had hot dinners - and you can see I have had a few,

The Tory decision wouldn't seem to have done Ken Clarke's hopes a great deal of good and we think David Davis now has the clear edge over his opponents with Liam Fox - whose odds we have halved from 12/1 - potentially his main challenger

The Tory Party - the funkiest, most jiving Party on Earth!

Adam, Grant and Tory have worked at ILM for some years. I worked there on one job with Grant and we became friends. Adam and Tory had worked with me or for me before then and, in fact, Adam got his first work in the field when I hired him over a decade ago. I found ILM a great place to work and that there were a lot of very talented people there. Many of the people there have worked with me over the years.

That 1983 general election contained the telltale seeds of eventual Scottish Tory self-destruction.

There's probably broad agreement within the Tory party for that. There's no concrete details on that, but you get the impression that Conservatives would probably support that as well. Obviously, the Liberals would support it because it's their program.

There's only one Tory Jackson, and what he did tonight was what he always does. Tonight Tory jump-started us, but the rest of his teammates also responded to the challenge.

If the prime minister or the Tory Party central office say that they will only have a debate with two party leaders, there won't be a debate -- not just because we won't let it happen because the legal advice given to the broadcasting authorities is that it couldn't happen.

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.

It's hard to be a good doctor if you don't think about the social circumstances of who you're treating. There are many Tory doctors, but I think it's difficult to be a doctor and a genuine right-winger.

Anyone can get on a QUANGO providing they are intimate with a Tory MP, so that rules out Norma Major.

If Corey Grantham is standing face to face with Dre, it's really face to chest. Tory Thompson has them standing in the grass. I suggest to you that Tory Thompson didn't see a thing.

The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread / in Ireland, sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!