Charles Kennedy
Charles Kennedy
Charles Peter Kennedywas a British Liberal Democrat politician, who was Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1999 to 2006 and a Member of Parliamentfrom 1983 to 2015, latterly for the Ross, Skye and Lochaber constituency...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth25 November 1959
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This is really going to be the first modern three party UK election that we have all experienced.
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It must be a judge - never a politician - who decides whether someone is to be locked up.
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It is time to take stock and to listen, and then to come back to you with the correct conclusions.
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It is the government's fundamental duty to ensure the security of every individual citizen.
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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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A society which is liberal democratic cannot have public policy determined upon the basis of who has got the loudest voice - or who can brings things to a halt.
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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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People have a huge desire to be listened to, for politicians to take the time to understand their problems.
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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,
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The terrorist seeks to smash the most fundamental liberty of all: the right to lead our everyday lives on the basic assumption of safety.
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That 1983 general election contained the telltale seeds of eventual Scottish Tory self-destruction.
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Soon after the 1997 election, I argued that there was no inverse law of political gravity which said that everything which went down had to come back up.
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Public perception of the Westminster arena, with all its posturings, does little to engender a sense of voter belief.
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Professionally I would say taking up my constituents' problems is something I continue to enjoy after 22 years as an MP.