Kenneth Robert Livingstone Quotes

Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Prepared, Budget, Balanced

Everyone changes all the time.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Time, Everyone, Changes

Give me the whole world to run and then I'll be happy. If tomorrow I was told I had to sort out the whole world's problems I'd sleep like a baby.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Happy, Sleep, Tomorrow

Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Three, Pay, Four

I actually think the civil service, who are the malignancy at the heart of public life, have consciously prevented, talked ministers out of, made it difficult regulatory-wise, to allow more pressure on alternative energy sources to grow.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Life, Heart, Made

I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Law, Thought, Rule

I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Against, Israel, Zionists

I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Change, Politics, Long

I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Lose, Hollywood, Garbage

I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Dead, Alive, Anyone

I can't understand why anyone would want to live the life of a politician if you can't say pretty much what you think. You are not in it for the money: there's unremitting pressure on your life, you give up so much of your privacy. It can only be because of the things you want to do and the things you want to say.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Life, Money, Live

I could not cherish London and not value Jewish London. The contribution of Jews to London is immense - politically, economically, culturally, intellectually, philanthropically, artistically.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Value, London, Cherish

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Religion, Either, Jewish

I do the gardening.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Gay, Around, Lesbian

I grew up in a house with very few books.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Few, Books, House

I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Financial, Interest, Affairs

I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Life, Money, Sound

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Read, Lies, Incredible

I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Best, Office, Judgement

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Politics, Loathe, Detest

I never came into life with any favours or privileges.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Life, Privileges, Favours

I refuse not to have a sense of humour.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Sense, Refuse, Humour

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Tradition, Seeking, Spent

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Politician

Born: June 17, 1945

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