20 Quotes filtered by Neil Kinnock
Liquid grease that slips and slides to the lowest level of responsibility.
Neil Kinnock
On the SDP Liberal Alliance.
Category: SDP
If I was in the gutter, which I'm not, he'd still be looking up at me from the sewer.
Neil Kinnock
On Michael Heseltine
Category: Insulting Conservatives
When you see the way she was done down, you are bound to think that the people who organised the coup must have had a conscience bypass.
Neil Kinnock 19/08/1991
On the fall of Margaret Thatcher
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
I would die for my country, but I could never allow my country to die for me.
Neil Kinnock
Explaining his support for CND
Category: Nuclear Disarmament
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.
Neil Kinnock
Category: Death
Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.
Neil Kinnock
Category: Truth
If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday, I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, I want you not to be old.
Neil Kinnock 06/1983
Category: 1983 General Election, Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
I believe the Chancellor is battering Britain.
Neil Kinnock 13/03/1984
In response to Nigel Lawson's announcement that fish & chips would be VATable.
Category: Budgets
Without false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot.
Neil Kinnock 06/01/1981
Category: Boasting
Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.
Neil Kinnock 09/09/1984
On Arthur Scargill
Category: Trade Unions
Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.
Neil Kinnock 25/09/1983
On Harold Wilson
Category: Insulting Labour
He couldn't knock the skin off a rice pudding.
Neil Kinnock 25/09/1983
On Tony Benn
Category: Insulting Labour, Labour Politicians (quotes about)
He's arrogant, orthopardically arrogant in every corpuscle.
Neil Kinnock 25/09/1983
On David Owen
Category: Insults - General
They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.
Neil Kinnock 22/02/1987
On the Tories
Category: Insulting Conservatives
The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.
Neil Kinnock 11/10/1984
Category: Socialist Workers Party
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.
Neil Kinnock 10/1982
Category: Labour Party
American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power.
Neil Kinnock 03/10/1986
Category: Nuclear Disarmament
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.
Neil Kinnock 06/01/1981
Category: Labour Party
