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Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock, PC (born 28 March 1942) is a Welsh Labour Party politician. He served as a Member of Parliament from 1970 until 1995, first for Bedwellty and then for Islwyn. He was the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1983 until 1992.

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The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.

Grapes, Killer, Killers, Political, Vanity

American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power.

Britain, Government, Nuclear, Removed, Start, Weapons

The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.

Historical, Party, Trouble, Workers

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.

Favour, Important, Labour, Party, People

We must not look for some kind of Messiah.

Kind, Look, Looks, Messiah

Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.

Application, Ideology, Person, Thatcher, Unfairness, Want

We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

Evil, Evils, Ownership, Remove, Source

Devolutionary reform will not provide a factory, a machine or jobs, build a school, train a doctor or put a pound on pensions.

Jobs, School, Doctors, Devolutionary, Reform, Factory

I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E. U. , but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.

Ideas, Britain, Skeptic, European, Skeptics, Consistently

Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.

Career, Careers, Men, Party, Political, Start

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

Fall, Ordinary, Young, Warn, Grow

Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

Fight, Fighting, Hands, Immense, Place, Rifles

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

Bitter, Desire, Diet, Resentment, Revenge, Toxins

The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.

Down, Finished, House, Lord, Paradise, Replaced

Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.

Harold, Petty, Remain, Spirit, Wilson

In the U. K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.

Cultural, Resistance, Right, Society, Stain, Stains

Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest.

Funny, Humorous, Inspirational, Mobile, Smallest, Subject

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.

Keen, Party, Thinking, Years

Without false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot.

Bevan, False, Feet, Fraction, Talent, Thinking

Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

Half, Make, Negatives, Truth, Two, Wit

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