Neil Kinnock Quotes

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• Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest.
• New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.
• I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.
• The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
• Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.
• Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in…
• That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is…
• The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.
• Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.
• You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.
• I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you…
• In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.
• No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.
• The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.
• I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just…
• Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the…
• Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of…
• People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not…
• 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 been easier had…
• Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's…

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