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" Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced. "
Ken Livingstone
Prepared
Been
Budget
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" I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life. "
Ken Livingstone
Life
My Life
Sound
" 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
Three
Control
Find
" The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing about it, wouldn't they? "
Ken Livingstone
Keep
Mistake
Me
" There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work. "
Ken Livingstone
Women
Law
Work
" Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it. "
Ken Livingstone
Four
Global
Global Warming
" This life is messy. "
Ken Livingstone
Messy
Life
" I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people. "
Ken Livingstone
See
Religion
Ethnicity
" I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law. "
Ken Livingstone
Rule Of Law
Rule
Thought
" I could not cherish London and not value Jewish London. The contribution of Jews to London is immense - politically, economically, culturally, intellectually, philanthropically, artistically. "
Ken Livingstone
Value
Cherish
Contribution
" I actually think the civil service, who are the malignancy at the heart of public life, have consciously prevented, talked ministers out of, made it difficult regulatory-wise, to allow more pressure on alternative energy sources to grow. "
Ken Livingstone
Out
Energy
Heart
" My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London. "
Ken Livingstone
Will
Tackle
London
" 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
Baby
Tomorrow
Sleep
" I never came into life with any favours or privileges. "
Ken Livingstone
Privileges
Came
Never
" You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again. "
Ken Livingstone
Again
You
Lose
" Everyone changes all the time. "
Ken Livingstone
Everyone
Changes
Time
" I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies. "
Ken Livingstone
Lies
Read
Incredible
" I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education. "
Ken Livingstone
Seeking
Tradition
Spent
" 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
Accountant
You
Yourself
" Politics is not a healthy lifestyle. "
Ken Livingstone
Politics
Lifestyle
Healthy
" 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
Mistakes
Stage
Here
" I would like all newspapers to become workers' co-operatives. "
Ken Livingstone
Workers
Newspapers
Would
" Most people wouldn't want to marry a politician. "
Ken Livingstone
Want
Marry
Most
" My main income is from speaking. "
Ken Livingstone
Speaking
Main
Income
" I refuse not to have a sense of humour. "
Ken Livingstone
Humour
Sense
Refuse
" 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
Always
Life
Need
" The market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn't protect the environment unless it's regulated, it doesn't train your workforce unless it's regulated, and it doesn't give you the long-term investment you want. "
Ken Livingstone
Environment
Investment
Train
" Most politicians aren't allowed to express themselves any more. "
Ken Livingstone
Politicians
Most
More
" Jewish voters are not one homogenous block. "
Ken Livingstone
Jewish
Voters
Block
" If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it. "
Ken Livingstone
Abolish
Voting
Changed
" I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. "
Ken Livingstone
Small Business
Business
Same