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.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.