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 think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.

Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.