Neil Kinnock

“I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.”

“Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to a university? Why is Glenys the first woman in her family in a thousand generations to be able to get to a university? Was it because all our predecessors were thick?”

“We're all right!”

“I am telling you, you can't play politics with people's jobs and with people's services or with their homes.”

“Comrades, I see the light at the end of the tunnel. I just hope it's not a Tory carrying a torch.”

“I warn you not to be ordinary. I warn you not to be young. I warn you not to fall ill. I warn you not to get old.”

“If Margaret Thatcher is re-elected, I warn you... you will have pain. When you get pain and you have my age and my experience, you don't want more pain for anybody.”

“People have got to know whether they're voting for a Labour government or a debating society.”