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" The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected. "
Charles Kennedy
Well
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You
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" Quality of life actually begins at home - it's in your street, around your community. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way. "
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" 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. "
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Time
" I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don't reflect the balance of political opinion in the country - can corrupt absolutely. "
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" I believe that our country is a richer, more vibrant society precisely because it is a multi-racial, multi-ethnic society. "
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" I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short. "
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" Of all the principles which constitute Liberal Democracy, internationalism is the clearest, the most distinctive, and the one with the longest history. "
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" For any new leader of any party at any given time it takes time if you are not in government to establish yourself. "
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Government
Leader
" Just as we Liberal Democrats opposed the flawed logic of that war in Iraq - we will oppose the flawed government claim that we have to surrender our fundamental rights in order to improve our security. "
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Security
Rights
" Terrorism gravely threatens international peace and security, and as a solution, the power and apparent finality of force are seductive. "
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Peace
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" Valuing public servants would boost morale among those on the front line of implementing government policy. "
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Front
Policy
" The most special relationships, in my experience, are based on a combination of trust and mutual respect. "
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Experience
Respect
" When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules. "
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Power
" With 24-hour news... the story moves on with the media. "
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News
Story
" Westminster is a jungle - and the hunter can always smell fear on its prey. "
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" I don't want a headline saying 'Kennedy suggests this or implies that.' "
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" The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings. "
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Better
Us
" As Liberal Democrats and proponents of federalism, we must put our heads above the parapet and recapture and disseminate the true meaning of federalism. We have to win the vocabulary before we succeed in the vision. "
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" Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for. "
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Words
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" Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. "
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