"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
StrengthView Quote
"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
posted in Politics
Other Quotes by Kenneth Robert Livingstone
Discover more inspiring quotes by Kenneth Robert Livingstone
"I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people."
-Kenneth Robert Livingstone
ReligionView Quote
"I do the gardening."
-Kenneth Robert Livingstone
GardeningView Quote
"Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding."
-Kenneth Robert Livingstone
WeddingView Quote
"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
RespectView Quote
"Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London."
-Kenneth Robert Livingstone
PoliticsView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"In politics stupidity is not a handicap."
-Napoleon Bonaparte
PoliticsView Quote
"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
-Ronald Reagan
PoliticsView Quote
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
-Aesop
PoliticsView Quote
"Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have."
-Winston Churchill
PoliticsView Quote
"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."
-Gore Vidal
PoliticsView Quote
"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around."
-Gilbert K. Chesterton
PoliticsView Quote