Deputies Quote by Alexander Downer

I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.

— Joshua Chamberlain

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

— Paddy Ashdown

I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and…

— Nick Clegg

I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

— Zachary Taylor

If elected, I would not be the mere president of a party - I would endeavor to act independent of party domination and should…

— Zachary Taylor

I'm committed to winning. The leadership of the Liberal Party is always the gift of the parliamentary Liberal Party, and I never make any…

— Scott Morrison

I'm the leader that can be the rallying point for the liberal movement that we need to create to take on the forces of…

— Jo Swinson

I am not a party candidate, and if elected cannot be President of a party, but the President of the whole people.

— Zachary Taylor

I never intended to become an opposition political leader. Perhaps the government wants to raise me up into one.

— Park Won-soon

I don't think I'll ever be president of anything.

— Hoagy Carmichael

I haven't necessarily joined politics to become a leader but because it was the need of the time.

— Urmila Matondkar

I could never go into politics, because I'm far too impatient and I'd want to be a dictator, albeit a benevolent one... I would…

— Joanna Lumley