Zitat des Tages von Charles Kennedy:
I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.
In my view, as a country we need to rediscover some of that skepticism about government and revisit that libertarian agenda.
I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket.
Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.
There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.
I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.
I find no contradiction between being a Highlander, a Scot, a citizen of the U.K. and a citizen of the European Union at one and the same time.
The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.
Useful lessons can be learned from our more successful local authorities - as you move into government, it is even more imperative to communicate speedily and persuasively with your members and your voters.
Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.
People are not stupid.
Decentralisation is controversial - but that's fine. We should be fearless about having a debate.
It is true that I entered parliament at the age of 23, and have now been representing the people of my constituency for over twenty years.
Those who use our public services should be able to deal directly with those who manage and deliver them.
You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.
I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.
To be seen to be human, provided you're doing your job at the same time, is definitely not a negative, not at all.
Good political leadership for me involves getting the big decisions right - however difficult, however controversial, however potentially divisive - and then being able to take people with you.
As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.
Actually, I think it's quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously.
Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.
To involve young people and make sure that the system is more relevant to them in Scotland, we have a clear obligation to implement a policy of home rule.
We are no longer a nation of one church; we are a nation of many churches.
A smaller-size party and parliamentary membership does not necessarily equate to lesser demands; if anything, the opposite can be the case.
Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.
My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way.
I know from my own parents how important active older people are to a local community.
With every day that passes, David Blunkett becomes more insensitive in his language and more intemperate in his actions.
I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education.
There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces.
I believe that our country is a richer, more vibrant society precisely because it is a multi-racial, multi-ethnic society.
To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.
The House of Lords has many fine aspects, but at its heart, it is a betrayal of the core democratic principle that those in the enlightened world hold so dear - that those who make the laws of the land should be elected by those who must obey those laws.
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
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.
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