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 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 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 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 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

I swim three times a week.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Times, Three, Week

I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Real, Democracy, Rather

I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Mistakes, Lie, Career

I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Work, Important, Keep

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Men, Strength, Kid

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Politician

Born: June 17, 1945

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