Charles Kennedy Quotes & Sayings

“Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.”

“I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short.”

“The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.”

“Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.”

“We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.”

“I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.”

“Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.”

“To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.”

“We Liberal Democrats believe in dialogue. We believe in cooperation with both sides of industry and between both sides of industry. And we believe in the language of cooperation. We reject the language of confrontation.”

“With 24-hour news... the story moves on with the media.”