64 Quotes by Neil Kinnock

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.

I’m prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He’s a world expert on leisure. He’s been practicing it for most of his adult life.

Two negatives don’t make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

Without false modetsy, I don’t think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot.

Political renegades always start their career of treachery as ‘the best men of all parties’ and end up in the Tory knackery.

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.

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

At various times in the next 20 or 30 years I think it reasonable to anticipate that I will be among the leadershp of the Labour Party, but as far as being leader, I can’t see it happening, and I’m not particularly keen on it happening.

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