I'm a fully paid-up member of the human race.

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.

I don't want a headline saying 'Kennedy suggests this or implies that.'

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.

I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!

I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket.

My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way.