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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.
Charles Kennedy -
Quality of life actually begins at home - it's in your street, around your community.
Charles Kennedy
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People are not stupid.
Charles Kennedy -
Valuing public servants would boost morale among those on the front line of implementing government policy.
Charles Kennedy -
When it comes to our public services, decentralisation means giving power back to those on the front line - our doctors, nurses, teachers and physiotherapists, and our locally elected officials.
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 -
Taking a principled and consistent stance over Iraq has attracted much criticism from our detractors and opponents.
Charles Kennedy -
We want a strong, vibrant economy for Britain so that we can set out a clear and affordable alternative programme for government.
Charles Kennedy
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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.
Charles Kennedy -
I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short.
Charles Kennedy -
Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.
Charles Kennedy -
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.
Charles Kennedy -
I'm a fully paid-up member of the human race.
Charles Kennedy -
I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.
Charles Kennedy
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It is the government's fundamental duty to ensure the security of every individual citizen.
Charles Kennedy -
To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.
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 -
You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.
Charles Kennedy -
Public perception of the Westminster arena, with all its posturings, does little to engender a sense of voter belief.
Charles Kennedy -
We would all rather see Iraq resolved successfully.
Charles Kennedy
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Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.
Charles Kennedy -
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.
Charles Kennedy -
That 1983 general election contained the telltale seeds of eventual Scottish Tory self-destruction.
Charles Kennedy -
We believe that government in Britain is there to protect people from terrorism and from the worst criminality, but never at the expense of our civil liberties and the basic tenets of our legal system.
Charles Kennedy