Neil Kinnock Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Neil Kinnock:
People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told it incessantly by newspapers.
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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 Kinnock
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I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me.
~Neil Kinnock
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There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.
~Neil Kinnock
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I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.
~Neil Kinnock
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I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.
~Neil Kinnock
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The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.
~Neil Kinnock
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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.
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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.
~Neil Kinnock
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You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.
~Neil Kinnock
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I'm the guy everybody wanted to live next door. They just didn't want me to be prime minister.
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My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.
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Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.
~Neil Kinnock
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The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.
~Neil Kinnock
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If we are going to have a bicameral parliament, I think there should always be a reserved place for people whose background and experience are critical to the welfare of the nation.
~Neil Kinnock
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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 Kinnock
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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.
~Neil Kinnock
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Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.
~Neil Kinnock
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In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.
~Neil Kinnock
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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.
~Neil Kinnock
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Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.
~Neil Kinnock
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The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
~Neil Kinnock
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