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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it. Neil Kinnock Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote