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Former Leader Of The Labour Party Inspirational Quotes (49)

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He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.
Michael Foot
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I?m not even sure I?d go into a reformed House of Lords. But let?s put it like this, the decision would have been easier had there been not even complete reform but a substantial stride.
Neil Kinnock
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How long will it be before the cry goes up: Let's kill all the judges?
Michael Foot
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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
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Without false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot.
Neil Kinnock
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Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer.
Neil Kinnock
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In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.
Neil Kinnock
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All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure.
Michael Foot
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Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.
Michael Foot
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The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.
Michael Foot
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Someone up there likes me.
Neil Kinnock
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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
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No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as an opportunist.
Michael Foot
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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.
Neil Kinnock
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The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.
Neil Kinnock
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Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law.
Michael Foot
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Is the Labour Party to remain a democratic party in which the right of free criticism and free debate is not merely tolerated but encouraged? Or are the rank and file of the party to be bludgeoned or cowed into an uncritical subservience towards the leadership?
Michael Foot
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Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine these are the universe.
Michael Foot
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Devolutionary reform will not provide a factory, a machine or jobs, build a school, train a doctor or put a pound on pensions.
Neil Kinnock
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A Britain which denounced the insanity of the nuclear strategy would be in a position to direct its influence at the United Nations and in the world at large, in a manner at present denied us
Michael Foot
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People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement.
Michael Foot
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The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.
Neil Kinnock
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I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born.
Neil Kinnock
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I warn you not to fall ill, I warn you not to get old.
Neil Kinnock
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