Charles Kennedy Quotes (24 Quotes)

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.

You mustn't confuse the need for effective chairmanship, which is part of the job of the boss, along with the ability to take tough decisions and to lead people.

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.

The most worrying thing of all is if we are now seeing a breakdown in communication, trust and co-operation between the British forces -- who have done a heroic job there under the most dreadful of circumstances -- and aspects at least of the Iraqi domestic security forces,

Why is it you remain so wedded to this proposal for 90 days Surely it's wrong. Surely you are going to have to back down.

It has been a fantastic victory. We have shown we are the party of the future. This decade can see us as part of the governments of our country.

Conservative Party leader Michael Howard immediately called for Blair to resign, telling reporters that this has so diminished his authority. ... increasingly seen as a lame duck, and lack conviction, credibility and the persuasion that a prime minister needs.

I think we owe it really to those forces, and to their families back home, to make quite clear what the position is and to reassure people by making quite clear that the government and parliament are thinking in terms of a safe homeward strategy for the forces.

I don't know what I would do now on an abortion vote.

If you want more investment in education and pensions, cast a vote for the Liberal Democrats.

I will be joining the campaign with a song in my heart, with a spring in my step

A clear conclusion has been reached, including by Conservatives, that the Conservatives are not going to win this election.

I think we should use the opportunity to leave the president in no doubt as to the extent of public concern, not just in our country, but in Europe generally about the way in which events, tragically, have unfolded,

Let no-one be in any doubt - the Liberal Democrats are not about to cede our emphatic, sincere and long-standing green credentials for some spray on aerosol version.

Over the course of the last parliament, as a party, we have been the real opposition over the big issues of the day ... and the Conservatives over that period have themselves flip-flopped on so many of those matters,

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Over the past 18 months I've been coming to terms with and seeking to cope with a drinking problem, and I've come to learn through that process that a drink problem is a serious problem indeed.

Cast your vote to restore Britain's reputation on the international stage. Vote Liberal Democrat if, like us, you say never again to an episode like Iraq.

Look, I have already said I am not going to put any artificial limits on our ambitions this time around.

This is really going to be the first modern three party UK election that we have all experienced.

History will certainly judge Tony Blair on Iraq, but first the British people will judge him on Thursday, ... Blair's judgment on the Iraq war was fatally flawed.

It is time to take stock and to listen, and then to come back to you with the correct conclusions.

Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

We all suffer when we lose a close relative and I offer the Queen, the Queen Mother and the Royal Family my greatest sympathy.