Top 75 Tory Quotes

It’s hard to be a good doctor if you don’t think about the social circumstances of who you’re treating. There are many Tory doctors, but I think it’s difficult to be a doctor and a genuine right-winger.

I was looking at a photograph of the 1997 election campaign yesterday, and I thought: ‘My God. Did I really have that hairstyle? And that Tory blue suit?’

Tory governments are bad for Scotland.

No-deal Brexit could be Boris Johnson’s biggest deception yet – worse than the Boris bus or the lies that had him sacked as a Times journalist or as a spokesman by the then Tory leader, Michael Howard.

We will vote down a blind Brexit. This isn’t about frustrating the process. It’s about stopping a destructive Tory Brexit. It’s about fighting for our values and about fighting for our country.

Like a majority of the population and a majority of even Tory voters, I want the railways back in public ownership.

Personally, I find the decisions and actions of my Tory colleagues appalling, but I also know plenty of Labour voters who are less than perfect.

I vote Labour and can’t begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.

The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.

I think I’m probably just an old-fashioned Tory. I don’t wake up each morning trying to figure out what kind of Conservative I am; for me it’s quite instinctive.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Thousands of people’s lives improved in this country through human rights laws. Individual people taking on the all-powerful state and winning. You’d think a very Tory thing to do. Sadly not, under Cameron’s leadership.

American artists, Americans in general, don’t take the U.K. rap scene too seriously, yeah, but thing is though, they wasn’t taking Canadian artists that seriously either. And now we have Bieber, The Weeknd, Tory Lanez, Drake – massive, massive Canadian artists.

Me and Tory Lanez got good chemistry together. We could make a song so easy, but we always like to figure out what we’re really doing. We can make a good song, but it gotta make sense.

My dad is like my one-man focus group: a Sun-reading Essex Tory.

Tory MPs largely do not care about these poorer people. They don’t care about the NHS. And the public has kind of cottoned on to that.

Foreign writers – especially Germans – often feel that Shakespeare is really one of them, that he was somehow accidentally born in the wrong country. In much the same way, leftists sense in their bones that he was a radical, rightists that he was a Tory.

The task ahead of us will be extremely challenging as the Tory party continue with their austerity agenda and as we continue to resolve the issues of the past and build unity, reconciliation, and equality.

The Tory party is at is strongest when it is in tune with the hopes and aspirations of Britain’s hard-working, law-abiding majority, and when it governs through clear Conservative principles.

People in Scotland don’t take too kindly to being lectured by a Tory Chancellor.

I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.

I’m not Tory but I do happen to think that the Government should be allowed to govern.

I didn’t become a Tory just to become part of a managerial group who wanted to run the country… I want to see popular free-market Conservatism where barriers are broken down, people have got more opportunities but keep more of their own money.

I’m not going to be known as the Sinn Fein Minister who did the bidding of a Tory administration which is focused on decimating the welfare state.

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

I’m not going to be reduced to the position of being the implementer of Tory cuts in the North.

I heard one woman say to another in the queue at a book signing: ‘I shouldn’t be buying this. He’s a former Tory MP, you know.’

Maybe the Tory party might, instead of telling the Brexit Party what to do, make an approach to the Brexit Party and say I’ll tell you what, we’ll stand aside in certain areas. That would be a very positive thing for me, let’s work together for a new kind of politics.

As the publisher of the ‘Tory,’ I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.

The Tory party must learn from its own history that when we fight each other, you can guarantee to lose.

When I was energy and climate change secretary I sat around a cabinet table with Gove, and he couldn’t help playing to the Tory climate-sceptic audience. As education secretary, he tried to ban climate change from the geography curriculum. After an angry exchange of letters with me, he eventually backed down.

I was proud to be a Tory Member of Parliament for twelve years, proud to represent Buckingham as a Tory, proud to have voted with my party 99% of the time as the record shows.

I know a lot of people in the music business who came from working-class backgrounds and they vote Tory.

Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one.

Tory plans to cut ‘further and faster’ would wreck recovery and roll back Labour’s many successes.

Britain has supported theocrats and dictators as long as it served British business interests, whether under Tory or Labour rule.

It’s no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.

I’m a one-nation Tory.

My grandfather was a Welsh dock-worker who voted Tory. Some of my friends are investment bankers who have voted Labour. It takes all sorts, and the best Tory values appeal to all sorts.

Equal constituencies’ sound fair. So why is Labour so against the constituencies bill and why do we call it gerrymandering? Because, like so much Tory rhetoric, it sounds good, but if we look beyond the soundbites it becomes clear that it covers policies that promote narrow sectional interests.

I remember the day after the general election when Harold Wilson had lost, I remember quite clearly cycling from my house in Hutton along Long Ridings and feeling what a relief to live in a country with a Tory government again.

Working class people vote Tory because they think it makes them look a bit posh.

I have friends who vote Tory, and I’m appalled, but that’s not to say they’re not great people in so many other ways.

The fact that I’m a Tory who hasn’t worked at a university – at least, not since I taught at Cambridge in 1990 – doesn’t disqualify me from serving on the board of the OfS.

I want to be the Tory Burch of India – never once moving from my aesthetic, but offering a story and putting a print on whatever I can.

I refused to pair with a Tory MP, I refused all foreign junkets and I’ve never had a drink in a Westminster bar.

Is it not typical that we have a Tory Government that wants, just like its pals in the Labour Party, constantly to talk down Scotland’s prospects?

Leaving politics was a good thing. I was spared a miserable Tory government where I might have ended up as leader.

I was interested in the ideas – freedom, free speech and having control of my own life. That’s why I became a Tory.

The Tory Party only talks to Brexiteers. It almost demonises… It comes across as dismissive of those who are not.

To hear the Conservatives issue a command that all Leave voters must vote Tory, this seems insultingly complacent.

I was brought up a working-class Tory. I believe, to be a true socialist, you have to be a capitalist first. In my heart, I’m a socialist; in my mind, I’m a capitalist.

Nobody should be allowed to fund political parties unless they pay at least 30% tax on all income above the median wage. If that rule applied, the Tory party would be bankrupted overnight.

When it comes to whether Britain should remain in the European Union, almost all political parties and traditions – Labour, the Greens, Liberal Democrats, the SNP, Plaid Cymru, and half of the Tory Party – agree that we are better off in Europe.

With Tory privatisations in the past we’ve seen how service users can end up losing out and getting a raw deal.

For a very long time, loyalists were often left out of patriotic American histories of the revolution. Or they were caricatured as upper-class Tory reactionaries, or – rather like the Jacobites – made the subject only of nostalgic antiquarianism.

Unlike the Tory millionaires, I live in the heart of the proud working-class community of the Bogside in Derry.

Scotland just isn’t terribly Tory.

I’m interested in art for all. I don’t want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.

I would always vote for Tory candidates in the United Kingdom, and I would probably be Republican if I was an American.

Where I live in south London, it is a very Tory area, so a Labour vote is a wasted vote. My leanings would certainly be not to vote Tory.