British - Politician | November 25, 1959 - June 1, 2015
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
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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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I'm a fully paid-up member of the human race.
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Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.
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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.
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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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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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People are not stupid.
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My approach is always to try to be straight with people, especially about what my party can achieve.
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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.
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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 think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!
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