Neil Kinnock Quotes - Page 2

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

  Neil Kinnock

  War, House, Majority

  "Neil Kinnock: 'This election is about now and the future'". Interview with David Hare, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.

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• 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.

  Neil Kinnock

  Party, Thinking, Years

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

  Neil Kinnock

  Loyalty, Political, Quality

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• Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.

  Neil Kinnock

  Spirit, Wilson, Petty

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• I must emphasise that there is nothing in the Labour Party constituion that could, or should prevent people from holding opinions which favour Leninist-Trotskyism. Certainly Marxism has, and will continue to have an important function in the Labour Party.

  Neil Kinnock

  Party, People, Important

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

  Neil Kinnock

  Party, Men, Careers

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• American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power.

  Neil Kinnock

  Government, Nuclear, Weapons

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• I?m not even sure I?d go into a reformed House of Lords. But let?s put it like this, the decision would have been easier had there been not even complete reform but a substantial stride.

  Neil Kinnock

  House, Decision, Reform

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

  Neil Kinnock

  Fashion, Two, Half

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

  Neil Kinnock

  Differences, Making A Difference, Angry

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

  Neil Kinnock

  Smile, Missing, Teeth

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

  Neil Kinnock

  Thinking, Feet, Talent

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• 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

  Ideas, Britain, Skeptic

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• I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir.

  Neil Kinnock

  Summer, Football, Winter

  1980 In The Times, 28 Jul.

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• We must not look for some kind of Messiah.

  Neil Kinnock

  Looks, Kind, Messiah

  "The Making of Neil Kinnock". Book by Robert Harris, 1984.

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