Charles Kennedy Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

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Decentralisation is controversial - but that's fine. We should be fearless about having a debate.

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.

Charles Kennedy

In my view, as a country we need to rediscover some of that skepticism about government and revisit that libertarian agenda.

Charles Kennedy

I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket.

Charles Kennedy

Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.

Charles Kennedy

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.

Charles Kennedy

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.

Charles Kennedy

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.

Charles Kennedy

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

Charles Kennedy

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.

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.

Charles Kennedy

People are not stupid.

Charles Kennedy

Decentralisation is controversial - but that's fine. We should be fearless about having a debate.

Charles Kennedy

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.

Charles Kennedy

Those who use our public services should be able to deal directly with those who manage and deliver them.

Charles Kennedy

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

Charles Kennedy

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

Charles Kennedy

To be seen to be human, provided you're doing your job at the same time, is definitely not a negative, not at all.

Charles Kennedy

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.

Charles Kennedy

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.

Charles Kennedy

Actually, I think it's quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously.

Charles Kennedy

Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.

Charles Kennedy

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.

Charles Kennedy

We are no longer a nation of one church; we are a nation of many churches.

Charles Kennedy

A smaller-size party and parliamentary membership does not necessarily equate to lesser demands; if anything, the opposite can be the case.

Charles Kennedy

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.

Charles Kennedy

My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way.

Charles Kennedy

I know from my own parents how important active older people are to a local community.

Charles Kennedy

With every day that passes, David Blunkett becomes more insensitive in his language and more intemperate in his actions.

Charles Kennedy

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.

Charles Kennedy

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.

Charles Kennedy

I believe that our country is a richer, more vibrant society precisely because it is a multi-racial, multi-ethnic society.

Charles Kennedy

To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.

Charles Kennedy

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.

Charles Kennedy

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Charles Kennedy

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.

Charles Kennedy

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