Ken Livingstone Quotes - Page 4

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• I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.

  Ken Livingstone

  Financial, Affair, Interest

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

  Ken Livingstone

  Book, House, Grew Up

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• Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for. I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people. The Tories take Jewish London for granted. I will not.

  Ken Livingstone

  Ethnicity, People

  "Ken Livingstone tells Jewish Chronicle of his contrition over leaked remarks" by Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.

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

  Ken Livingstone

  Hollywood, Garbage, Absolutes

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• I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.

  Ken Livingstone

  Israel, Zionist

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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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• Everyone changes all the time.

  Ken Livingstone

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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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• I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty.

  Ken Livingstone

  Views, Order, Needs

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

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• I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

  Ken Livingstone

  Detest, Loathe

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

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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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• I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

  Ken Livingstone

  Gay, Rights, London

  "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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• 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 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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• It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.

  Ken Livingstone

  Art, People, Criticism

  "Art attack - mayor and sculptor in war of words over Mandela statue", www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2005.

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• I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.

  Ken Livingstone

  Needs, Lied, Public Life

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• I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.

  Ken Livingstone

  Small Business, Position

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

  Ken Livingstone

  People, Alive, Mets

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• If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.

  Ken Livingstone

  Running, Cities, Focus

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• If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.

  Ken Livingstone

  War, Election, Vote

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• I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

  Ken Livingstone

  Average, Years, Careers

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• I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.

  Ken Livingstone

  Country, Rights, World

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• 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.

  Ken Livingstone

  Clever, Kids, Men

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

  Ken Livingstone

  Privilege, Favour

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• Boris [Johnson] and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum].

  Ken Livingstone

  War, Referendums, Dave

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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