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.

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

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.