Neil Kinnock quotes - page 3

We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership. (Neil Kinnock)
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. View quote
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The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes. View quote
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Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest. View quote
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The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask. View quote
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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. View quote
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Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount. View quote
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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. View quote
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American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power. View quote
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[T]he only reason why I espouse centralism now, the central organisation and co-ordination and government of our resources in this country, and would like to see much more of that co-ordination and organisation and control and democracy of resources in a Socialist country, is that I think that it is a structure that can give the best advantage to the people-the people I think I am here to represent, working-class people, irrespective of their nationality. View quote
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[Labour's] socialist argument recognised that the system of economic gambling, commercial whim, speculative profiteering and profligate waste of the earth's resources that is dignified by the title 'private enterprise' is increasingly demonstrating its inability to meet human needs for food, employment, security and fulfilment. (Neil Kinnock)
I'm a father. And no matter how much I try to convince myself towards the course of 'enlightenment' I know damn well that, put to the test, I'm what people would call a reactionary. I know it. I try and rationalize it but it's no good. I come to the same conclusion all the time. My children stand a chance of being hurt in the forseeable future by what's called permissiveness. View quote
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In the years between our defeat in 1979 and our defeat in 1983 Labour was increasingly seen to be a party slipping towards impossiblism, succumbing to fads, riven by vicious divisions, speaking the language of sloganised dogma – and usually voicing it in the accents of menace. It was almost as if sections of the party measured the purity of their socialism by the distance which they could put between it and the minds of the British people. View quote
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