Ken Livingstone Quotes - Page 4

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• I take a much more pragmatic view than many people on the Left about working with Neil Kinnock. Kinnock represents the best vehicle possible for achieving socialism now.

  Ken Livingstone

  Views, People, Socialism

  Ham and High, February 21, 1986.

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• I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.

  Ken Livingstone

  Hard Work, Might, Enough

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• I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.

  Ken Livingstone

  School, Thinking, Cities

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

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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'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've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people.

  Ken Livingstone

  Media, Two, People

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• The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.

  Ken Livingstone

  People, Franklin, Admire

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

  Ken Livingstone

  Running, Cities, Focus

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We look to the left and to the right And we need help but nobody's in sight Where is the man that we all need Tell him he's to come and rescue me.

  Ken Livingstone

  Men, Sight, Needs

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• [Pigeons are] rats with wings.

  Ken Livingstone

  Wings, Rats, Pigeons

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• There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough.

  Ken Livingstone

  Needs, London, Desperate

  Socialist Organiser, March 1979.

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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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• Most kids dont get to go their parents wedding.

  Ken Livingstone

  Kids, Parent

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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 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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