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Charles Kennedy


British
November 25, 1959
Politician
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I have always considered myself of the reforming centre-left.


Charles Kennedy
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With 24-hour news... the story moves on with the media.


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I don't want a headline saying 'Kennedy suggests this or implies that.'


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We actually believe in hope. But hope requires purpose. And purpose requires direction.


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We are no longer a nation of one church; we are a nation of many churches.


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I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.


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When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules.
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I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short.


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Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.
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I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place.
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In my view, nations together are stronger than when they are isolated. And because they are stronger, their people are more free, not less.
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To be seen to be human, provided you're doing your job at the same time, is definitely not a negative, not at all.
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If British troops are committed to action, then the nation will, of course, support them. Their courage and skill is not in doubt.
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We must restore faith in politics. Reform of the House of Lords is only one part of the answer, but it is a vital one.
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I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them.
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I find no contradiction between being a Highlander, a Scot, a citizen of the U.K. and a citizen of the European Union at one and the same time.
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The late Roy Jenkins was both a mentor and a personal friend. He was a man of both phenomenal intellect and political achievement in equal measure.
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Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.
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We need less theoretical debate and more practical application and acknowledgment of what Europe can and does do so that it is brought home to people in a relevant way.
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We opposed unlimited detention without trial. We stood up for trial by jury as well. And of course we spoke up for asylum seekers and for the most vulnerable in our society.
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I believe when the country feels threatened it is important that we are seen to be working together to find an appropriate structure for dealing with terrorists in our midst.
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We Liberal Democrats believe in dialogue. We believe in cooperation with both sides of industry and between both sides of industry. And we believe in the language of cooperation. We reject the language of confrontation.
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The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.
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The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings.
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When human rights are systematically abused, it raises the question whether it may be legitimate in some circumstances for the international community to intervene within individual states as well as in conflicts between states.
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I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don't reflect the balance of political opinion in the country - can corrupt absolutely.
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There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces.
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Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.
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