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I warn you not to fall ill, I warn you not to get old.

Neil Kinnock

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Neil Kinnock
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 28
Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Politician
Neil Gordon Kinnock
Baron Kinnock
Neil G. Kinnock
Neil Gordon Kinnock
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At various times in the next 20 or 30 years I think it reasonable to anticipate that I will be among the leadershp of the Labour Party, but as far as being leader, I can't see it happening, and I'm not particularly keen on it happening.
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Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.
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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.
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New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.
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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.
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I must emphasise that there is nothing in the Labour Party constituion that could, or should prevent people from holding opinions which favour Leninist-Trotskyism. Certainly Marxism has, and will continue to have an important function in the Labour Party.
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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.
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The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.
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Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.
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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.
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Someone up there likes me.
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They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.
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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.
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I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.
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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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Without false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot.
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The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.
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The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.
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We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.
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You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.
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