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

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. — Neil Kinnock

Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it. — John Major

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

I warn you not to fall ill, I warn you not to get old. — Neil Kinnock

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

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

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

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards. — Neil Kinnock

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

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

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

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

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

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

I always knew that Neil Kinnock belonged in the economic nursery. Now, God help us we've got twins. — Michael Heseltine

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

The enemy of idealism is zealotry. — Neil Kinnock

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

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

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

We must not look for some kind of Messiah. — Neil Kinnock

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. — Neil Kinnock

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

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

Someone up there likes me. — Neil Kinnock

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

The Labour Party is being led by a woman but she has not been elected to anything. She is the lady who makes the breakfast in the Kinnock household. — Edwina Currie

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

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

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

Newspapers are tutors as well as informers. — Neil Kinnock

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

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. — Neil Kinnock

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