I won't allow any party to evade the question of which leader they support for prime minister.
Having stared into the abyss of what it actually means for your life to be the leader of a political party, I'm just full of admiration and respect for anyone who wants to do it.
The leader of a political party in a country like ours is so exposed that his enemies become as numerous and formidable as his friends.
I cannot see Modiji as separate from BJP. Both are the same.
I feel fortunate that, by the age of 40, I had crammed in an entire political career.I had been in the Cabinet and been leader of the party, so now I can branch out into other things... it is a very liberating feeling.
Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.
Brian Burke as we now know was the most influential person in the West Australian Labor Party, if you could attract him, you're in business.
Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.
I believe that politics is a matter of person. Specifically in the Fifth French Republic. In a healthy political system, a political party should resemble its leader.
Fascism is not just a word. It's not just a way to insult someone with whom you disagree. It is a specific thing. It is a specific form of far right politics that involves a sort of narcissistic cult of superman action around the leader of the party.
At any given time, when there is a Republican president, typically we regard that person as the leader of the Republican Party.
I am a lady and the leader of a national party.
Paddy Ashdown is the only party leader who's a trained killer. Although, to be fair, Mrs Thatcher was self taught.
I am very grateful to the MLAs for unanimously electing me as the BJD legislature party leader.
Our MPs will take decisions on how they're voting on a day-to-day basis. But I'm the leader of the party, and in terms of our overall strategy and how we vote on key issues, then ultimately, those decisions will be mine.
I would rather not to have to fly across the country at all, but obviously, as a federal party leader, I do.
I am absolutely delighted to give my full support to Gordon as the next leader of the Labour Party and as prime minister and to endorse him fully.
I think it's quite unlikely that I'll be the leader of the Green party going into a future election if it's on anything like a four-year timing.
