Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.
- Neil Kinnock
Loyalty, Fine, Graveyards, Excess
The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.
- Neil Kinnock
Like, Without, Marbles, Missing
People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told it incessantly by newspapers.
- Neil Kinnock
Extent, Minded, Draw, Incessantly
There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.
- Neil Kinnock
Politicians, Other, Second, Category
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.
- Neil Kinnock
Labour Party, Profoundly, None
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.
- Neil Kinnock
Thought, Want, Unfairness, None
I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.
- Neil Kinnock
Argued, Britain, Hostile, Notice
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 real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.
- Neil Kinnock
Politics, Dangerous, Applied, Hobby
The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.
- Neil Kinnock
Political, Diet, Sin, Killer
You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.
- Neil Kinnock
You, Two, Cannot, Wit
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
Regret, Strike, Ballot, Miners
Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.
- Neil Kinnock
Well, Newspapers, Tutors
I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.
- Neil Kinnock
Remembered, Like, Tried, Promote
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
Endorsement, Prime, Britain, Commons
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
Grow, Fall, Young, Warn
In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.
- Neil Kinnock
Society, Cultural, Far Right, Stain
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
Leader, Prime, Which, Ambition
I'm the guy everybody wanted to live next door. They just didn't want me to be prime minister.
- Neil Kinnock
Door, Next, Prime, Next Door
If we are going to have a bicameral parliament, I think there should always be a reserved place for people whose background and experience are critical to the welfare of the nation.
- Neil Kinnock
Think, Always, I Think, Welfare
The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
- Neil Kinnock
Enemy, Idealism
Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.
- Neil Kinnock
Difference, Makes, Lot, Angry
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