Quotes by Neil Kinnock

About Neil Kinnock:

Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock is a British Labour Party politician. He served as a Member of Parliament from 1970 until 1995, first for Bedwellty and then for Islwyn. He was the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1983 until 1992, making him the longest-serving Leader of the Opposition in British political history.
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Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

Neil Kinnock

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

Neil Kinnock

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

Neil Kinnock

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.

Neil Kinnock

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

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.

Neil Kinnock

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.

Neil Kinnock

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.

Neil Kinnock

Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.

Neil Kinnock

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.

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.

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

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I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.

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

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In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.

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Author Bio

  • NameNeil Kinnock
  • DescriptionBritish politician
  • AliasesNeil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock; Neil G. Kinnock
  • BornMarch 28, 1942
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPolitician