Ken Livingstone Quotes - Page 3

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• I refuse not to have a sense of humour.

  Ken Livingstone

  Humour, Refuse

  "Ken Livingstone: 'It's an autobiography, not porn'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.

  Ken Livingstone

  Prepared, Balanced, Has Beens

  "Ken Livingstone: It's policies that matter this time, not personalities". Interview with Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2012.

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• Everyone changes all the time.

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• 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.

  Ken Livingstone

  Running, Baby, Sleep

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• I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.

  Ken Livingstone

  Hollywood, Garbage, Absolutes

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• I grew up in a house with very few books.

  Ken Livingstone

  Book, House, Grew Up

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• I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.

  Ken Livingstone

  Financial, Affair, Interest

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• I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.

  Ken Livingstone

  Sound, Investment, Borrowed Money

  "Ken Livingstone: It's policies that matter this time, not personalities". Interview with Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2012.

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• I never came into life with any favours or privileges.

  Ken Livingstone

  Privilege, Favour

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• Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.

  Ken Livingstone

  Election, Accurate, Polling

  "Ken Livingstone: 'This isn't a race to elect a chat-show host'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.

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• The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.

  Ken Livingstone

  Pay, Truth Is, Taxes

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• Well, on lots of small things we could have done better, but on all the big things we called it right. You should make less mistakes as you get older, and I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.

  Ken Livingstone

  Mistake, Done, Should

  "Ken Livingstone: 'It's an autobiography, not porn'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Everyone is bisexual. Almost everyone has the sexual potential for anything.

  Ken Livingstone

  Bisexual

  Speech to Harrow Gay Unity Group, August 18, 1981.

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• 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.

  Ken Livingstone

  Office, Judgement, London

  "Livingstone sworn in as London mayor" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2000.

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• What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?

  Ken Livingstone

  Climate, Climate Change

  "I would have loved to be PM" by John Harris, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2008.

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• I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it. But you pay corporation tax. If you're then taking it out and spending it on yourself, you have to pay more.

  Ken Livingstone

  Mean, Giving, Different

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• When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay between the cleaner and the director general was a four-to-one ratio. I find that attractive.

  Ken Livingstone

  Years, Differences, Leader

  "Ken Livingstone praises 'visionary' Ed Miliband" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2012.

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• Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth.

  Ken Livingstone

  Voting, Income, Done

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

  Ken Livingstone

  Self, Class, Tradition

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• I swim three times a week.

  Ken Livingstone

  Swim, Three, Week

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

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  Mistake, Lying, Thinking

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

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  Thinking, People, Important

  "Ken Livingstone: It's policies that matter this time, not personalities". Interview with Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2012.

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• I've never declined to do an interview.

  Ken Livingstone

  Interviews

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• My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.

  Ken Livingstone

  Issues, Community, Black

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• I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.

  Ken Livingstone

  Exercise, Ethical Standards, Office

  "Livingstone sworn in as London mayor" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 08, 2000.

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