George Osborne Quotes

What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.

There are no factions in the Liberal Party.

It's impossible always to be with the majority in coalition government, especially when it's a very complicated coalition.

If the Tories and Lib Dems fought together, they'd keep their ministerial offices and limousines, and continue to do the right things for the U.K. But too many backbenchers in both parties yearn for Opposition, preferring hallucinogenic ideological purity and political irrelevance to the mucky reality of governing.

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.

Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.

If I don't get along with Democrats, I'm sort of, like, out of business.

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party.

A minority government can't govern without support from other parties.

Of course, running a coalition government in a country like India is a difficult task. More so when Congress leads the coalition, since most of the political parties were anti-Congress. To have a coalition, to run a coalition government, you require a lot of adjustments, a lot of flexibility.

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

The Democrats never fight about who is more like Jimmy Carter.

Elections in India are not contests between personalities. They are ultimately battles involving political parties; promises and pledges that political parties make; the vision and programmes that political parties bring to the table. So although, Modi's style is 'I, me, myself,' I don't think 2014 elections as a Modi versus Rahul contest.

As for life within a Legislature,— who can tell how warped and bent and twisted, and accommodated to the exigencies of party struggle become the faculties of belief?

You win elections with coalitions. You don't win elections by ideologically cleansing your party.

The President is hampered at every turn by the necessity of humoring his party.

If Presidents are not looking for confrontations with the Congress—even with their own party members—then their aides are.

Partisanship is a fire not to be quenched. It demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its busting into a flame, lest instead of warming, it should consume.

I was never a Democrat but there are some Republicans who think I ought to be.

Our two-party system has served us well over the years, but never better than in those times of great challenge when we came together not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans united in a common cause.

Major parties have lived more for patronage than principles; their goal has been to bind together a sufficiently large coalition of diverse interests to get into power; and once in power, to arrange sufficiently satisfactory compromises of interest to remain there.

I am speaking as a Republican now, not a national security expert, but I believe that my party needs to come together.

The role of the speaker of the House is to deliver enough votes by understanding and accommodating the individual bottom lines of enough members to pass the bill.

I will be extremely happy if people start questioning political parties when they make electoral alliances.