Neil Kinnock Short Quotes

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We support the efforts to keep the pits open until exhausted.

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The army of brokers, jobbers and other quaintly named parasites.

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

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

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

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Politics without compromise is like a car without a gear box: it can look quite elegant but you won't get anything out of it.

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

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I don't think anyone could accuse someone who has been leader of the Labour party for more than seven years of being impulsive.

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I don't believe that the policies on which we fought the [1983] election ought to be ejected like some sort of spent cartridge.

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There are lots of ways to get socialism, but I think trying to fracture the Labour party by incessant contest cannot be one of them.

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What has happened is that there are people who, for reasons best known to themselves, have voted for maintaining division in our country.

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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.

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If Margaret Thatcher wins – I warn you not to be ordinary. I warn you not to be young. I warn you not to fall ill. I warn you not to get old.

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The roots of defeat which were put down by some of the elements of our party in the two or three years after 1980 made victory difficult to achieve.

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Heckler: At least Mrs Thatcher has got guts.
Neil Kinnock: It's a pity that other people had to leave theirs on the ground at Goose Green to prove it.
On the Falklands War

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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.

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Oh I detest him. I did then, I do now, and it's mutual. He hates me as well. And I'd much prefer to have his savage hatred than even the merest hint of friendship from that man.

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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.

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