Neil Kinnock

Politician

1942-03-28

Quotes by Neil Kinnock

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.

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• Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.

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• 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.

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

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