Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across. – 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
I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them. – Charles Kennedy
Three simple words – freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for. – Charles Kennedy
Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present. – William Lloyd Garrison