39 Quotes by Francis Maude

What people want from Mr Blair is not more polished rhetoric about the future but practical solutions to the problems of the present.

We should be the natural home for people in our cities. But we're not. Because too often we've sounded as if we're just a countryside party.

I want to make it very open. We've researched the practicalities and there are lots of innovative ways of doing it that don't cost an arm and a leg. We've looked to see if there's a way of having a very open primary election that doesn't kill us financially.

If you draw a line through Birmingham we lost support above that line and we lost support among voters under 35 so we are now third in that group.

David Cameron's message of change, optimism and hope is in tune with what Britain wants today

Everyone now claims to be a moderniser and it's obvious, really. I mean, no one now says 'We need to go backwards... to the days of Lord Salisbury'.

The chairman of the conference does feel very strongly that the platform speakers must be dealt with in a very neutral way with no one being allowed extra time.

We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we’re not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It’s like disapproving of rain.