Election Quotes
"Opinion polls come and go during a campaign, but there is no doubt the trend
is away from Labour and towards us" - Liam Fox, co-chairman of the Conservative
Party, interviewed on the ePolitix.com website.
"There is vast concern about immigration but hardly any immigrants" - Labour MP John Cryer, campaigning in his Hornchurch constituency.
"I believe this government would have been a far diminished government if it hadn't been for what you have brought to it" - What the Prime Minister says to Chancellor Gordon Brown in a forthcoming election broadcast.
"As a genuine floating voter, I approach the election with more interest than I usually feel in the processes of democracy. In fact, I can hardly wait to see how I'm going to vote" - Best-selling author A N Wilson.
"We don't know why, but the other parties have obviously decided there is no vote for saving the planet" - Keith Taylor one of the Green Party's principal speakers.
"I might be persuaded to vote for a competent, if tarnished, control-freak but I will not vote for a control-freak in hock to religious inquisitors" - Author Salman Rushdie on Tony Blair and the prospect that a Labour Government might introduce the offence of "incitement to religious hatred".
"Part of the problem is that New Labour is so programmed to appeal to floating voters in the centre that it has forgotten the language with which to inspire its core voters on the left" - Former Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook.
"Shoddy electioneering is the dry rot of parliamentary democracy" - Tory peer Lord Deedes.
"If you're willing to pay, I'm willing to sway. The winning bidder gets to choose which party I vote for" - An advertisement on the eBay internet auction website. But the Electoral Commission warns that going through with such a transaction would be illegal.
"May 5: a good day to bury a bad government" - Austin Kilmaskin, of Stockport, Cheshire, in a letter to The Daily Telegraph.
"There is vast concern about immigration but hardly any immigrants" - Labour MP John Cryer, campaigning in his Hornchurch constituency.
"I believe this government would have been a far diminished government if it hadn't been for what you have brought to it" - What the Prime Minister says to Chancellor Gordon Brown in a forthcoming election broadcast.
"As a genuine floating voter, I approach the election with more interest than I usually feel in the processes of democracy. In fact, I can hardly wait to see how I'm going to vote" - Best-selling author A N Wilson.
"We don't know why, but the other parties have obviously decided there is no vote for saving the planet" - Keith Taylor one of the Green Party's principal speakers.
"I might be persuaded to vote for a competent, if tarnished, control-freak but I will not vote for a control-freak in hock to religious inquisitors" - Author Salman Rushdie on Tony Blair and the prospect that a Labour Government might introduce the offence of "incitement to religious hatred".
"Part of the problem is that New Labour is so programmed to appeal to floating voters in the centre that it has forgotten the language with which to inspire its core voters on the left" - Former Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook.
"Shoddy electioneering is the dry rot of parliamentary democracy" - Tory peer Lord Deedes.
"If you're willing to pay, I'm willing to sway. The winning bidder gets to choose which party I vote for" - An advertisement on the eBay internet auction website. But the Electoral Commission warns that going through with such a transaction would be illegal.
"May 5: a good day to bury a bad government" - Austin Kilmaskin, of Stockport, Cheshire, in a letter to The Daily Telegraph.