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Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.
— Charles Kennedy
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.
— Charles Kennedy
Quality of life actually begins at home - it's in your street, around your community.
— Charles Kennedy
The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.
— Charles Kennedy
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.
— Charles Kennedy
The way to defeat international terrorism is through international cooperation based on international law, clear intelligence, and a measured and appropriate military response.
— Charles Kennedy
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
— Charles Kennedy
Westminster is a jungle - and the hunter can always smell fear on its prey.
— Charles Kennedy
I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.
— Charles Kennedy
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.
— Charles Kennedy
The most special relationships, in my experience, are based on a combination of trust and mutual respect.
— Charles Kennedy
We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.
— Charles Kennedy
This country has a proud history of opening its doors to generations of people fleeing personal persecution, civil unrest and war.
— Charles Kennedy
I believe that our country is a richer, more vibrant society precisely because it is a multi-racial, multi-ethnic society.
— Charles Kennedy
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.
— Charles Kennedy
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.
— Charles Kennedy
Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.
— Charles Kennedy
There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.
— Charles Kennedy
I don't want a headline saying 'Kennedy suggests this or implies that.'
— Charles Kennedy
My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way.
— Charles Kennedy
For any new leader of any party at any given time it takes time if you are not in government to establish yourself.
— Charles Kennedy
With 24-hour news... the story moves on with the media.
— Charles Kennedy
Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.
— Charles Kennedy
I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.
— Charles Kennedy
Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.
— Charles Kennedy
I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.
— Charles Kennedy
You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.
— Charles Kennedy
I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education.
— Charles Kennedy
I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.
— Charles Kennedy
To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.
— Charles Kennedy
If you were to describe me as teetotal, on behalf of my constituency I'd have to sue; that would lose me every vote in the Highlands.
— Charles Kennedy
To be seen to be human, provided you're doing your job at the same time, is definitely not a negative, not at all.
— Charles Kennedy
I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket.
— Charles Kennedy
I'm a fully paid-up member of the human race.
— Charles Kennedy
Actually, I think it's quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously.
— Charles Kennedy
Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.
— Charles Kennedy
I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.
— Charles Kennedy
I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place.
— Charles Kennedy
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.
— Charles Kennedy
People are not stupid.
— Charles Kennedy
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.
— Charles Kennedy
My approach is always to try to be straight with people, especially about what my party can achieve.
— Charles Kennedy
It is true that I entered parliament at the age of 23, and have now been representing the people of my constituency for over twenty years.
— Charles Kennedy
Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.
— Charles Kennedy
I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short.
— Charles Kennedy
I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!
— Charles Kennedy
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.
— Charles Kennedy
I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel.
— Charles Kennedy
There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.
— Charles Kennedy
We would all rather see Iraq resolved successfully.
— Charles Kennedy
I think you've got to like people. There are MPs who are either painfully shy or who don't like public speaking or don't socialise very well, and you just think this must be the worst job in the world for them.
— Charles Kennedy
It has been the greatest privilege of my adult and public life to have served, for 32 years, as the Member of Parliament for our local Highlands and Islands communities.
— Charles Kennedy
A perennial problem that has faced the Scottish Highlands is that, time and again, too many of the more talented young people have had to move elsewhere - even abroad - through a lack of opportunities that should have been available.
— Charles Kennedy
Some ministers are fond of talking about a return to Victorian values. We must realise that those Victorian values are being expressed by some of the younger people in this society in shameful and disturbing disregard for other members of their generation who are not as fortunate as they are in having a job.
— Charles Kennedy
During my campaign, people of my age and younger said consistently that they would not vote because their votes simply no longer matter and because no government or member of Parliament cared a whit about their problems and their striving for employment.
— Charles Kennedy
To involve young people and make sure that the system is more relevant to them in Scotland, we have a clear obligation to implement a policy of home rule.
— Charles Kennedy
The government's instinct is to shroud itself in secrecy - to act like the office of a president instead of as a collective cabinet government held to account by the elected House of Commons.
— Charles Kennedy
Taking a principled and consistent stance over Iraq has attracted much criticism from our detractors and opponents.
— Charles Kennedy
Whatever the eventual judgment, the political implications of Hutton are already clear. A devastating indictment of Labour in power - and of our political system itself.
— Charles Kennedy
'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the creation and imposition of a European superstate, one centralised in Brussels.
— Charles Kennedy
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