Neil Kinnock Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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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 of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer.”
-- Neil Kinnock

#Inspirational #Compassion #Sick
“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 not to grow old.”
-- Neil Kinnock

#Fall #Ordinary #Young
“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 applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.”
-- Neil Kinnock

#Real #Fishing #Agony
“I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.”
-- Neil Kinnock

#Country
“Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.”
-- Neil Kinnock

#Party #Men #Careers
“No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.”
-- Neil Kinnock

#War #House #Able
“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 the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.”
-- Neil Kinnock

#Want #Unfairness #Ideology
“Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest.”
-- Neil Kinnock

#Funny #Humorous #Men
“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 there been not even complete reform but a substantial stride.”
-- Neil Kinnock

#House #Decision #Reform
“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

#Jobs #School #Doctors
“The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.”
-- Neil Kinnock

#House #Paradise #Lord
“We must not look for some kind of Messiah.”
-- Neil Kinnock

#Looks #Kind #Messiah
“[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.”
-- Neil Kinnock

#Political #Intellectual #Way
“Someone up there likes me.”
-- Neil Kinnock

#Likes
“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 Labour movement generally.”
-- Neil Kinnock

#Party #Movement #Answers
“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 hostile to the whole European idea.”
-- Neil Kinnock

#Ideas #Britain #Skeptic
“The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.”
-- Neil Kinnock

#Vanity #Political #Killers
“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 democratic politics.”
-- Neil Kinnock

#Fighting #Hands #Rifles
“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 a form of primitive religion.”
-- Neil Kinnock

#Liberty #Economic #Assets
“The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.”
-- Neil Kinnock

#Smile #Missing #Teeth
“Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.”
-- Neil Kinnock

#Differences #Making A Difference #Angry
“You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.”
-- Neil Kinnock

#Fashion #Two #Half
“The enemy of idealism is zealotry.”
-- Neil Kinnock

#Enemy #Idealism #Zealotry
“In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.”
-- Neil Kinnock

#Resistance #Stains
“New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.”
-- Neil Kinnock

#Loyalty #Political #Quality
“Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.”
-- Neil Kinnock

#Revenge #Desire #Toxins

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