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Neil Kinnock [1942-0] British

Rank: 102
Politician, Former Leader of the Labour Party

Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock PC is a British Labour Party politician. He served as a Member of Parliament from 1970 until 1995, first for Bedwellty and then for Islwyn.

Diet, Smile, Society

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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.		101
I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.		102
Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.		103
In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.	Society	104
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.		105
You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.		106
The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.	Diet	107
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.		108
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.		109
The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.	Smile	110
No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.		111
I'm the guy everybody wanted to live next door. They just didn't want me to be prime minister.		112
Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.		113
I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me.		114
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.		115
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.		116
The enemy of idealism is zealotry.		117
Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.		118
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.		119
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.		120
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.		121
I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.		122

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