Neil Kinnock Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me.”

“In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.”

“The enemy of idealism is zealotry.”

“I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.”

“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.”

“Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.”

“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.”