Liz Truss Quotes

Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.

Well, I feel that everybody in the country knows me. I think people know who I am, and that I'm deputy leader of the Labour party, and that I'm out there talking about their big choice for the future.

I voted for McCain. But I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organized, very, very good. I was very impressed.

Conservatives of Western North Carolina should send Mark Meadows to Congress. We need his help.

While a truly national third party wouldn't necessarily be bad, smaller niche parties are ill-suited to our federalist system.

The Texas Republican Party is in many respects like the national party. We have different components that all add value in different ways, whether it's the Tea Party on fiscal questions, whether it's the so-called establishment that's focused on economic development questions, moving states like Texas forward.

There's always that tension between policy and personality in politics, and as voters, we have that, too: we all vote on issues, but we also vote on whether we like the people who are put forward.

I used to vote Democrat.

And the political system is changing rapidly in this country, and we better realize that. The elephants or donkeys are not what younger people look to. They look at individual candidates' philosophy, and I think it's a different time and a different generation.

We have seven months before the election. Our top priority as fiscal conservatives is to make sure President Obama retires.

The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics.

What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.

I've always voted Republican because America is exactly that, a republic. You can't expect much leadership with a Democrat behind the desk their not even close to dual efficient.

Of course we are looking to win support across every section of society. We win support by speaking to voters on the issues they most care about.

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.

Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.

The way people imagine their political leaders is, like it or not, an important factor in how they decide to vote and, indeed, whether they vote at all.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

Every election is a matter of definition.

If you feel so strongly about it, why don't you make it an issue and run against me.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion can change the government practically just so much.

If the Russian voters prefer Boris Yeltsin, then we are really a country of idiots.

There are certain elections where policy matters more than others….Personality without a platform will not cut it.

The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation.