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Famous Neil Kinnock Quotes
“We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.”
“Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.”
“Without false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot.”
“Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.”
“Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.”
“The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.”
“They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.”
“Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest.”
“New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.”
“I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.”
“Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.”
“The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.”
“Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.”
“In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.”
“The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.”