Kenneth Clarke Quotes

A lot of nasty things were said about me in my own party about my unwillingness to demand the government shutdown.

Some of the people in my caucus, some of the people in the state party in Minnesota have basically said, "We don't want to deal with these guys because they're too conservative," or "We don't agree with them on social issues."

The Workers (Communist) Party of America has been for many years an organization of foreign workers not much connected with the political life of the country. Owing to this immigrant exclusiveness two leading groups arose.... For six years an almost uninterrupted struggle for supremacy in the party has been going on between them. The struggle was, in the main, not based on principles ... principles served chiefly to camouflage the struggle for supremacy.

The Republicans definitely want to fight. They are just not sure what they want to fight about.

The last thing you want to do is go up against someone in your own party and certainly your own president.

Here's the problem of the Democratic Party... There's no Breitbart. The problem in the Democratic Party? They haven't had a civil war.

There's this fight for the heart and soul of the Republican Party, and until that fight gets settled - because they're the majority - there's a lot of things that are pretty much on hold.

The Democratic Party is always going to be a diverse group of people who are yelling at each other and fighting over what's the best way to do something.

Democrats didn't agree with policies. How do I know? Because they voted against them when they came up on the floor of the House and the Senate.

The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle.

It's never a good time, when you're the president of the United States and your own party is finding lots of different ways to distance themselves from you.

Our own GOP machine, the establishment, they who would assemble the political landscape, they're attacking their own front-runner.

What hurts the GOP is when we have leaders placing the blame on other leaders within the party.

We need to stand up to Donald Trump and the Republicans, but we also need to stand up against our own party establishment when it's on the wrong side of an issue.

Historically, Democrats have been far more united than Republicans when it comes to policy, ideology and public debate.

Obama is trying to protect Obamacare, and then obviously even in his own party a bunch of people are against it.

If you're an opposition party, you are actively using the power you have to oppose the ideas of the other party.

I believe that our party, the Democratic party, must be a party that fights fire with fire.

A lot of Democrats like to play the 'If we were Republicans' game. I usually hate it; I don't want to behave like the Republicans do.

The Socialists did not want to work with us, so we created an alliance with the FPO, and we are making good policies of reform for our country.

After helping the Republican National Committee address some of the troubling deficiencies the party faced after 2012, as outlined in its so-called autopsy report, and witnessing some real progress in our outreach to women in the ensuing years, I did not expect an egomaniacal arsonist to come along and set all that ablaze.

My party will not be with any BJP or Congress-led government.

I just want my party back, please.

There were many in the party that did not want me to run.

I've never done any cross-party stuff. I've no interest in sitting down discussing pensions or whatever with Tories.