Top 22 Quotes by Neil Kinnock

The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.

I'm the guy everybody wanted to live next door. They just didn't want me to be prime minister.

I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.

Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.

I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.

Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.

No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.

If we are going to have a bicameral parliament, I think there should always be a reserved place for people whose background and experience are critical to the welfare of the nation.