Charles Kennedy Quotes
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Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
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Only the Liberal Democrats have probed the government's failings consistently, thoroughly and effectively.
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People are not stupid.
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You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.
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Good political leadership for me involves getting the big decisions right - however difficult, however controversial, however potentially divisive - and then being able to take people with you.
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Actually, I think it's quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously.
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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.
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I'm a fully paid-up member of the human race.
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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.
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Ours is a stable country. Ours is a sensible country. And ours is a fundamentally decent country.
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Taking a principled and consistent stance over Iraq has attracted much criticism from our detractors and opponents.
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Some ministers are fond of talking about a return to Victorian values. We must realise that those Victorian values are being expressed by some of the younger people in this society in shameful and disturbing disregard for other members of their generation who are not as fortunate as they are in having a job.
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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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The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.
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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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It is the government's fundamental duty to ensure the security of every individual citizen.
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New Labour needs to realise that family life and the way we raise our children are private matters.
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That 1983 general election contained the telltale seeds of eventual Scottish Tory self-destruction.
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Democracy demands trust. It demands that sense of mutual understanding. And - it's a two way street. You've got to give - as much as you take.
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We have a Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales, both elected by fairer votes - involving proportional representation.
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By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them.
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No government body is more notorious for over-legislation than the Department of Trade and Industry.
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Those who use our public services should be able to deal directly with those who manage and deliver them.
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We Liberal Democrats believe in dialogue. We believe in cooperation with both sides of industry and between both sides of industry. And we believe in the language of cooperation. We reject the language of confrontation.