Ken Livingstone Quotes - Page 3

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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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• I don't just denounce suicide bombers. I denounce those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy.

  Ken Livingstone

  Suicide, Government, Bombers

  "London mayor: West created terror", www.cnn.com. July 20, 2005.

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• If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone.

  Ken Livingstone

  Stones, Projects, Transport

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• I think George Bush is the most corrupt American president since Harding in the Twenties. He is not the legitimate president. This really is a completely unsupportable government and I look forward to it being overthrown as much as I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being overthrown.

  Ken Livingstone

  Thinking, Government, President

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• I feel a degree of regret that Marshall did not push on and say 'abolish the GLC' because I think it would have been a major saving and would have released massive resources for productive use.

  Ken Livingstone

  Regret, Thinking, Degrees

  "Beyond Our Ken: A Guide to the Battle for London". Book by Andrew Forrester, Robin Pauley, and Stewart Lansley, 1985.

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• The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear.

  Ken Livingstone

  Ideas, People, Cost

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• Most kids dont get to go their parents wedding.

  Ken Livingstone

  Kids, Parent

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• I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.

  Ken Livingstone

  Writing, Growing, Awareness

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

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• Only some ghastly dehumanised moron would want to get rid of the Routemaster.

  Ken Livingstone

  Want, Moron, Ghastly

  "Livingstone and the 'morons' have killed off the Routemaster" by Philip Johnston, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 24, 2005.

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• My view is rather than just rage at your impotence you find the best way of achieving as much as you can within whatever constraints there are. It's not the world I would have created but you do what you can within it.

  Ken Livingstone

  Views, World, Way

  "Ken Livingstone Interviewed: Boris, The Other Boris, Music, Politics & London". Interview with Luke Turner, thequietus.com. September 23, 2010.

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• The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges.

  Ken Livingstone

  Judging, World, British

  The Daily Telegraph, May 17, 1986.

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• When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates, you have to think, 'You are a complete idiot.'

  Ken Livingstone

  School, Thinking, Trying

  "Livingstone: 4X4s drivers are idiots", www.standard.co.uk. May 21, 2004.

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• What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.

  Ken Livingstone

  Forever, Teens, Awakening

  "Ken Livingstone Interviewed: Boris, The Other Boris, Music, Politics & London". Interview with Luke Turner, thequietus.com. September 23, 2010.

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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've never declined to do an interview.

  Ken Livingstone

  Interviews

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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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• [Pigeons are] rats with wings.

  Ken Livingstone

  Wings, Rats, Pigeons

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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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• If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

  Ken Livingstone

  Gay, Rights, London

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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.

  Ken Livingstone

  Mistake, Lying, Thinking

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

  Ken Livingstone

  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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