Charles Kennedy Quotes

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• Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

  Charles Kennedy

  Courage, Fear, Bravery

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• Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

  Charles Kennedy

  Honesty, Simple, Justice

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• Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.

  Charles Kennedy

  Skills, Britain, Immigrants

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• Paddy Ashdown is the only party leader who's a trained killer. Although, to be fair, Mrs Thatcher was self taught.

  Charles Kennedy

  Party, Self, Leader

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• Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

  Charles Kennedy

  Taken, Serious, Aspect

  Charles Kennedy (2000). “The future of politics”

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• To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.

  Charles Kennedy

  Running, Party, Political

  "Interview: Honest joker's charm offensive". Interview With Polly Toynbee, Michael White, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2001.

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• Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

  Charles Kennedy

  Struggle, Opportunity, Should Have

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• I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.

  Charles Kennedy

  Fighting, Thinking, Views

  "Gently does it?" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2005.

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• Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.

  Charles Kennedy

  Communication, Essence, Important

  Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2005.

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• I'm a fully paid-up member of the human race.

  Charles Kennedy

  Race, Members, Humans

  "Gently does it?" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2005.

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• I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

  Charles Kennedy

  Essentials, Cigarette, Accepting

  "The New Statesman Interview - Charles Kennedy". Interview with Jackie Ashley, www.newstatesman.com. Januray 29, 2011.

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• I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.

  Charles Kennedy

  Believe, Opportunity, Thinking

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• If you were to describe me as teetotal, on behalf of my constituency I'd have to sue; that would lose me every vote in the Highlands.

  Charles Kennedy

  Vote, Describe Me, Behalf

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• The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings.

  Charles Kennedy

  Thinking, Age, Records

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• The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

  Charles Kennedy

  Unexpected, Wells, One Thing

  "Kennedy not ruling out his return", news.bbc.co.uk. June 22, 2006.

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• I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education.

  Charles Kennedy

  Taken, Decision, Needs

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• I have never once been persuaded as to the causal link between the Iraqi regime, al-Qaeda and September 11. I do believe the impact of war under these circumstances is bound to weaken the international coalition against terrorism itself.

  Charles Kennedy

  War, Believe, Impact

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• I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!

  Charles Kennedy

  Thinking, Leader, Former

  "Charles Kennedy: You Ask The Questions". Independent interview, www.independent.co.uk. November 16, 2009.

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• For any new leader of any party at any given time it takes time if you are not in government to establish yourself.

  Charles Kennedy

  Party, Government, Leader

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• I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place.

  Charles Kennedy

  Thinking, House, Kind

  "Kennedy's bride-to-be dismisses drink claims", www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2002.

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• I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

  Charles Kennedy

  Lifelong, Trade, Believer

  "Charles Kennedy's speech to the TUC". www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2002.

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• My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young, to have ideals is akin to being blinkered and oldfashioned.

  Charles Kennedy

  Young, Idealism, Ideals

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• I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.

  Charles Kennedy

  Kind, Persons, Over The Top

  "Interview: Honest joker's charm offensive". Interview With Polly Toynbee, Michael White, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2001.

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• You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.

  Charles Kennedy

  Democrat, Trade, Describing

  "Kennedy: trade unionists are not 'wreckers'" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2002.

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• There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.

  Charles Kennedy

  Country, Choices, Liberty

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