64 Quotes by Neil Kinnock

I'm the guy everybody wanted to live next door. They just didn't want me to be prime minister.

People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told it incessantly by newspapers.

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.

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

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.

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'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.

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.