64 Quotes by Neil Kinnock

I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.

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.

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

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.

You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

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.

The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.

No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.

The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.