Top 136 Quotes by Charles Kennedy

I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.

I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short.

The late Roy Jenkins was both a mentor and a personal friend. He was a man of both phenomenal intellect and political achievement in equal measure.

If you were to describe me as teetotal, on behalf of my constituency I'd have to sue; that would lose me every vote in the Highlands.

No government body is more notorious for over-legislation than the Department of Trade and Industry.

Gratification and happiness are becoming important measures of our quality of life.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.

You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.

It's our job as Liberal Democrats to be an effective opposition - and an increasingly tough one as well.