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We must restore faith in politics. Reform of the House of Lords is only one part of the answer, but it is a vital one.


Charles Kennedy

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ROBERT KENNEDY One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
ROBERT KENNEDY He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly l...
JACKIE KENNEDY Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
JACKIE KENNEDY Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
JACKIE KENNEDY The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
JACKIE KENNEDY What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had familie...
JACKIE KENNEDY I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all da...
JACKIE KENNEDY Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a hor...
JACKIE KENNEDY I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
JACKIE KENNEDY There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
JACKIE KENNEDY You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
JACKIE KENNEDY Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for ...
JACKIE KENNEDY I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investin...
JACKIE KENNEDY Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living al...
JACKIE KENNEDY I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
JACKIE KENNEDY There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
JACKIE KENNEDY The only routine with me is no routine at all.
JACKIE KENNEDY I want to live my life, not record it.
JACKIE KENNEDY I am a woman above everything else.
JACKIE KENNEDY The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. T...
ROBERT KENNEDY The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the co...
ROBERT KENNEDY Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
EDWARD KENNEDY