Charles Kennedy Quotes

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Charles Kennedy

Profession : Politician

Birth : November 25, 1959

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Charles Kennedy

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.

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Quality of life actually begins at home - it's in your street, around your community.

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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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The way to defeat international terrorism is through international cooperation based on international law, clear intelligence, and a measured and appropriate military response.

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Terror can never be defeated by force alone.

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The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

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Gratification and happiness are becoming important measures of our quality of life.

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The House of Lords has many fine aspects, but at its heart, it is a betrayal of the core democratic principle that those in the enlightened world hold so dear - that those who make the laws of the land should be elected by those who must obey those laws.

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That 1983 general election contained the telltale seeds of eventual Scottish Tory self-destruction.

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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.

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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 believe that government in Britain should be working to restore our reputation on the international stage after Iraq and engage better within Europe.

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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.

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Valuing public servants would boost morale among those on the front line of implementing government policy.

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Soon after the 1997 election, I argued that there was no inverse law of political gravity which said that everything which went down had to come back up.

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Of all the principles which constitute Liberal Democracy, internationalism is the clearest, the most distinctive, and the one with the longest history.

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As Liberal Democrats and proponents of federalism, we must put our heads above the parapet and recapture and disseminate the true meaning of federalism. We have to win the vocabulary before we succeed in the vision.

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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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'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.

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