Neil Kinnock Quotes

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

The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.

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.

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

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.

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.

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

We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

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

Someone up there likes me.

Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

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.

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

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

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

[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.

The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.

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

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

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.

We must not look for some kind of Messiah.

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.

Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest.

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

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

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

I warn you not to fall ill, I warn you not to get old.

That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.

Devolutionary reform will not provide a factory, a machine or jobs, build a school, train a doctor or put a pound on pensions.

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