Charles Kennedy Quotes
- Actually, I think it's quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously.
- For any new leader of any party at any given time it takes time if you are not in government to establish yourself.
- I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is…
- I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place.
- I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!
- There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be…
- There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the…
- Befriending provides a valuable lifeline to many people who feel isolated in their communities often as a result of ill health or poverty. I would…
- Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.
- There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.
- The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.
- My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way.
- We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.
- Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.
- Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.
- I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.
- You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.
- I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally…
- I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.
- To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.