Minority Government Quotes

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

I cannot be any clearer, minority governments don't work.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

Under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, it is possible for other parties to change the direction of a government without bringing a government down.

What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.

The SNP became a minority government in 2007, then a majority one in 2011. But Labour viewed what was happening as some kind of aberration. They felt the problem wasn't theirs: they didn't have to change; the Scottish people had just gone down this wrong road, and if they waited long enough, they would find their way back.

All of us know that any substantial block of votes can cause trouble in the French legislature because practically any French government has to have the votes of many groups to have a majority.

The Republican establishment is trying to nullify the results of the 2016 election. There can be no doubt about it.

A real possibility now exists for a Government that is not led by either Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil

England does not love coalitions.

If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition, in some form.

We will govern as if we had a majority. You simply carry on with your agenda.

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

Gilles Duceppe avoids making campaign promises altogether so he can emphasize that his Bloc Quebecois has only one objective: to prevent Harper from forming a majority government.

I think I have been perfectly clear in saying that I hope Canadians do elect a majority government. I think this cycle of election after election, minority after minority is beginning to put some of the country's interests in serious jeopardy.

There always will naturally be some differences when you form the government with coalition parties. Even some single party governments also face several issues.

One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing.

The only party that has better bragging rights than the Greens is the Bloc Quebecois.

You have to govern like you've got a majority. It doesn't matter whether it's one seat, five or 10 seats.