189 Quotes by Charles Kennedy

There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country’s security and an individual’s liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.

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

I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it’s bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay – everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don’t want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

You mustn’t confuse the need for effective chairmanship, which is part of the job of the boss, along with the ability to take tough decisions and to lead people.

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

Actually, I think it’s quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously.

My health is good and it’s up to me to keep it that way.

I have never once been persuaded as to the causal link between the Iraqi regime, al-Qaeda and September 11. I do believe the impact of war under these circumstances is bound to weaken the international coalition against terrorism itself...