Never, never, will I accept, on issues of integrity, comparisons with the Liberal party.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.
I'm not terribly focused on whether I even could ever become the Leader of the Liberal Party or the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the future.
I'm more the conscience of the conservative than I am someone looking for consensus.
What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.
It is my determination that we, as a party, continue to make that fundamental restatement of liberal values in the politics of our country.
I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision.