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Neil Kinnock

(1942) Politician United Kingdom

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Neil Kinnock is a politician from the United Kingdom, best known for [Democratic socialism or social democracy.].

Quick Facts About Neil Kinnock

Born: March 28, 1942
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Politician
Notable works: [Democratic socialism or social democracy.]
Spouse: Glenys Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead

About Neil Kinnock

Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock is a Welsh politician who was Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1970 to 1995, first for Bedwellty and then for Islwyn. He was Vice-President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004. Kinnock was positioned on the soft left of the Labour Party.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Neil Kinnock · Page 2

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

Excess

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Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless…

Ability

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Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.

Careers

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Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and…

Application

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Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

Anger

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Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest.

Boast

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Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have…

Ballots

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I warn you not to fall ill, I warn you not to get old.

Fall

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We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

Capitalism

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You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

Fashion

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People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told…

Draw

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I?m not even sure I?d go into a reformed House of Lords. But let?s put it like this, the decision would have…

Decision

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[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.

Intellectual

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I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.

Justice

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People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics…

Addresses

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I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I…

Born

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I'm the guy everybody wanted to live next door. They just didn't want me to be prime minister.

Door

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Someone up there likes me.

Likes

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No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House…

Able

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Without false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot.

Boast

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They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.

Bananas

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I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most…

Adult life

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We must not look for some kind of Messiah.

Kind

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The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.

Flasks

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