Neil Kinnock Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

We must not look for some kind of Messiah.