10 Quotes By Kenneth Robert Livingstone


I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone on business

I do the gardening.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone on gardening

I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone on politics

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone on politics

Politics is not a healthy lifestyle.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone on politics

Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone on politics

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone on religion

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.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone on respect

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 on strength

Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone on wedding