Everybody Wanted Quotes by Neil Kinnock

There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second…

— Neil Kinnock

Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

— Neil Kinnock

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be…

— Neil Kinnock

I must emphasise that there is nothing in the Labour Party constituion that could, or should prevent people from holding opinions which favour Leninist-Trotskyism.…

— Neil Kinnock

I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

— Neil Kinnock

If we are going to have a bicameral parliament, I think there should always be a reserved place for people whose background and experience…

— Neil Kinnock

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.

— Neil Kinnock

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

— Neil Kinnock

American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power.

— Neil Kinnock

At various times in the next 20 or 30 years I think it reasonable to anticipate that I will be among the leadershp of…

— Neil Kinnock

I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir.

— Neil Kinnock

Devolutionary reform will not provide a factory, a machine or jobs, build a school, train a doctor or put a pound on pensions.

— Neil Kinnock

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

— Neil Kinnock

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn…

— Neil Kinnock

Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in…

— Neil Kinnock