189 Quotes by Charles Kennedy

The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings.

This is really going to be the first modern three party UK election that we have all experienced.

My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young, to have ideals is akin to being blinkered and oldfashioned.

As someone who has led his party through two general elections, I have not always been immune from feeling the pressure of electioneering tactics.

I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place.

A clear conclusion has been reached, including by Conservatives, that the Conservatives are not going to win this election.

I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!

It must be a judge - never a politician - who decides whether someone is to be locked up.

There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces.