Charles Kennedy

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

I am and always will be a leader.

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.