Neil Kinnock

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

“Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.”

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

“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.”

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

“I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.”

“People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the rea...”

“Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.”

“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...”