Neil Kinnock quotes
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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.”
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“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 KinnockSource : On the prospect of a Conservative re-election, in speech at Bridgend, 7 June 1983; 'Guardian' 8 June 1983
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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 that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.”
-- Neil KinnockSource : "Neil Kinnock: 'This election is about now and the future'". Interview with David Hare, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.
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“I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.”
-- Neil KinnockSource : Speech at Labour Party Conference, 30 Sept. 1986, in Guardian 1 Oct. 1986
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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.”
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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 of Commons.”
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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 disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.”
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“Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest.”
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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 been easier had there been not even complete reform but a substantial stride.”
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“Devolutionary reform will not provide a factory, a machine or jobs, build a school, train a doctor or put a pound on pensions.”
-- Neil KinnockSource : South Wales Echo, November 01, 1975.
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“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 KinnockSource : Tribune, November 19, 1976.
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“We must not look for some kind of Messiah.”
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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.”
-- Neil KinnockSource : Interview with Sam Aaronovitch, Marxism Today, June 1983.
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“Someone up there likes me.”
-- Neil KinnockSource : "The Making of Neil Kinnock". Book by Robert Harris, 1984.
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“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 KinnockSource : "'He's a bastard but he's our bastard'". Interview with Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2007.
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“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.”
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“The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.”
-- Neil KinnockSource : "Neil Kinnock: 'This election is about now and the future'". Interview with David Hare, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.
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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 no place in democratic politics.”
-- Neil KinnockSource : Speech in the House of Commons, October 23, 1986.
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“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 KinnockSource : Speech to National Housing and Town Planning Conference in Bournemouth, October 28, 1986.
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“The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.”
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“Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.”
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“You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.”
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“In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.”
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“New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.”
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“Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.”
-- Neil Kinnock
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