Ken Livingstone quote: "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?"

What a squalid and irresponsible little profession it is. Nothing prepares you for how bad Fleet Str...
KEN LIVINGSTONE

If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at ...
KEN LIVINGSTONE

All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, an...
KEN LIVINGSTONE

I actually think the civil service, who are the malignancy at the heart of public life, have conscio...
KEN LIVINGSTONE

Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.
KEN LIVINGSTONE

The civil service are risk averse.
KEN LIVINGSTONE

I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, orga...
KEN LIVINGSTONE

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.
KEN LIVINGSTONE

I've never declined to do an interview.
KEN LIVINGSTONE

I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I t...
KEN LIVINGSTONE

Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.
KEN LIVINGSTONE

The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it i...
KEN LIVINGSTONE

I actually think it's what he represents they don't want to see depicted, because in that square one...
KEN LIVINGSTONE

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.
KEN LIVINGSTONE

Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for.
KEN LIVINGSTONE

I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not i...
KEN LIVINGSTONE

I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I ...
KEN LIVINGSTONE

I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; yo...
KEN LIVINGSTONE

I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been pri...
KEN LIVINGSTONE

But when reporters say to me I'm only doing this because it's my job... that's the same abdication o...
KEN LIVINGSTONE

The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of the...
KEN LIVINGSTONE

World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.
KEN LIVINGSTONE

When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.
KEN LIVINGSTONE

It's dramatically less. We think the return would be massively beneficial.
KEN LIVINGSTONE

I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than r...
KEN LIVINGSTONE

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academicall...
KEN LIVINGSTONE

I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.
KEN LIVINGSTONE

If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it
KEN LIVINGSTONE

a major milestone in London's recovery.
KEN LIVINGSTONE

Texas playing Tower Bridge will be a combination of the modern and the best of the old that reflects...
KEN LIVINGSTONE

It is important now for Blair to accept that foreign policy is a serious concern and to start to do ...
KEN LIVINGSTONE

Cycling is the fastest, cheapest, most healthy and environmentally friendly way to get around London...
KEN LIVINGSTONE

[Big problem over next week's conference. Jack's down to do a fringe meeting with Ken Livingstone bu...
KEN LIVINGSTONE

Thatcher was prepared to destroy the world rather than give in on something she believed in.
KEN LIVINGSTONE

I do the gardening.
KEN LIVINGSTONE

There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticis...
RICHARD LIVINGSTONE

All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
DAVID LIVINGSTONE

I will go anywhere, provided it be forward.
DAVID LIVINGSTONE

I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
DAVID LIVINGSTONE

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.
DAVID LIVINGSTONE

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
DAVID LIVINGSTONE

Fear God and work hard.
DAVID LIVINGSTONE

A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its p...
RICHARD LIVINGSTONE

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use...
RICHARD LIVINGSTONE

If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.
DAVID LIVINGSTONE

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking with...
BELLE LIVINGSTONE

The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property.
RICHARD LIVINGSTONE

I will go anywhere, as long as it be forward.
DAVID LIVINGSTONE

Welcome to the hardware/software war.
ADAM LIVINGSTONE

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men ...
DAVID LIVINGSTONE

The staff left more angry than when they started. There didn't seem to be any understanding that the...
ANN LIVINGSTONE

Though there is antipathy in the human heart to the gospel of Christ, yet when Christians make their...
DAVID LIVINGSTONE

Self-deception helps us deceive,
DAVID LIVINGSTONE

It is working with clients and changing that perception. I don't mind if market commentators have th...
DAVID LIVINGSTONE

Without Christ, not one step; with Him, anywhere!
DAVID LIVINGSTONE

I will go anywhere, provided it is forward
DAVID LIVINGSTONE

I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward.
DAVID LIVINGSTONE

Friend, we are well met indeed. I think we are a pair of fools and that we should hasten to Nildren'...
IAN LIVINGSTONE

The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.
DAVID LIVINGSTONE

The staff left more angry than when they started.
ANN LIVINGSTONE

I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.
DAVID LIVINGSTONE

Cultivate a spirit of joy and praise. Not only will you light up your own heart, but the hearts of t...
LORETTA LIVINGSTONE

We took a look at where we wanted to go and found Getty Images singularly capable of helping us get ...
BRUCE LIVINGSTONE

It's been busier than ever I guess they were having a going-out-of-business sale.
DAVID LIVINGSTONE

I began to understand how we are built; we're built to be natural-born liars, ... Nature has fashion...
DAVID LIVINGSTONE

You mess with my sister, you're messing with me!
LORETTA LIVINGSTONE

This purchase strengthens our online IT and digital products sales and service presence for small an...
IAN LIVINGSTONE

I used to read comics all the time - escapism, ... So, it was good you get to make up your own adven...
IAN LIVINGSTONE

People can't go climbing mountains or go on Lara Croft adventures or go down damp, dark dungeons kil...
IAN LIVINGSTONE

We share the benefits of success, ... We haven't got rooms and rooms of corporate people running aro...
IAN LIVINGSTONE

Games people are creative people, ... Creative people are all different. So, you have to be all thin...
IAN LIVINGSTONE

I thought there was going to be a limit to paper and pencil games and I really wanted to get into th...
IAN LIVINGSTONE

He may be old now, but he is still a hero in their eyes
LORETTA LIVINGSTONE

Arts and Crafts was never there to prevent industrial growth. It was there to tailor it.
KAREN LIVINGSTONE

The Arts and Crafts Movement was about design for living. It was design for ordinary people. That wa...
KAREN LIVINGSTONE

One of the overriding criteria for including an object in the show was the quality of its craftsmans...
KAREN LIVINGSTONE

It's not intended to be a comprehensive study of the Arts and Crafts Movement. It's a look at how pe...
KAREN LIVINGSTONE

[The movement still] resonates with the way we live and work today, ... With its concern for such th...
KAREN LIVINGSTONE

I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.
DAVID LIVINGSTONE

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want ...
DAVID LIVINGSTONE

It is safe being in a very dangerous country but the keys are speed and unpredictability. He's going...
NEIL LIVINGSTONE

We tell blatant lies to one another. We tell blatant lies to our children.
DAVID LIVINGSTONE SMITH

Rather than looking for explanations for why all people deserve to be treated with compassion and re...
DAVID LIVINGSTONE SMITH

Dehumanization isn’t a way of talking. It’s a way of thinking—a way of thinking that, sadly, c...
DAVID LIVINGSTONE SMITH

When in the public eye, it's tough because it's generating stress constantly, because deep down in y...
DAVID LIVINGSTONE SMITH

Well, you know, people lead double lives. We all do to some degree. We keep certain things separate ...
DAVID LIVINGSTONE SMITH

I began to understand how we are built; we're built to be natural-born liars. Nature has fashioned u...
DAVID LIVINGSTONE SMITH

It's a new day at the Department of Interior, and we need to examine what makes the most sense f...
KEN SALAZAR

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than ...
KEN VENTURI

'Bloom' is basically the idea that all flesh is grass, and that we can look at natural plant...
KEN GOLDBERG

My father believed a real man didn't read, and my parents hoped I'd get some sense and find ...
KEN BRUEN

The values of confidentiality of matters occurring before the grand jury is very important.
KEN STARR

It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.
KEN HENSLEY

I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and...
KEN HENSLEY

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a l...
KEN BURNS

When in doubt, use brute force.
KEN THOMPSON

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered someth...
KEN KESEY

The tourist board have put a bounty on me head, but they like the biz from tourists.
KEN BRUEN

What is a drop of rain, compared to the storm? What is a thought, compared to the mind? Our unity is...
KEN LEVINE

People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there's a three-poi...
KEN SALAZAR

We did some jumping at the start of the show. We went out without telling anyone - and the studio li...
KEN CURTIS

It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.
KEN JENNINGS

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims o...
KEN DODD

I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play ...
KEN HENSLEY

There are only two kinds of coaches -- those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.
KEN LOEFFLER

Researching real history has taught me to be bolder and more imaginative in building fantasy worlds ...
KEN LIU

I am a very bottom-up thinker.
KEN THOMPSON

The decline of geography in academia is easy to understand: we live in an age of ever-increasing spe...
KEN JENNINGS

I gave up many times but I never quit.
KEN POIROT

Who can say if the thoughts you have in your mind as you read these words are the same thoughts I ha...
KEN LIU

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
KEN KESEY

Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed.
THOMAS KEN

"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!...
KEN KESEY

Her laughter was an upbeat song set to a minor key.
KEN SCHOLES

The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction.
KEN GILBERT

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.
KEN BLANCHARD

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.
KEN MASON

I never use notes, they interfere with me.
KEN BLANCHARD

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative co...
KEN BLANCHARD

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you a...
KEN BLANCHARD

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.
KEN BLANCHARD

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery in...
KEN KESEY

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you mee...
KEN KEYS

HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose
KEN BLANCHARD

The 2nd amendment was never intended to allow private citizens to 'keep and bear arms.' If it had, t...
KEN KONECKI

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.
KEN ADELMAN

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intentio...
KEN BLANCHARD

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.
KEN HUDGINS

If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minut...
KEN DODD

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your ...
KEN CAREY

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining ...
KEN BURNS

You do not have enough data to assign value to any action in the book Starseed Transmissions.
KEN CAREY

What's the three words you never want to hear while making love? Honey, I'm home.
KEN HAMMOND

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you are on offense the other team controls the ball.
KEN HARRELSON

Take what you can use and let the rest go by
KEN KESEY

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
KEN OLSEN

Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worryin...
KEN ROCKWELL

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
KEN HAKUTA

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify t...
KEN BURNS

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.
KEN KESEY

If you look only as Genesis as an allegory, you have a major problem, because if it's an allegor...
KEN HAM

If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the fa...
KEN AULETTA

If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is ...
KEN MEHLMAN

What is fascinating to me is the way I view everything in terms of parallels and connections. When I...
KEN LIU

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results...
KEN ROBINSON

Based on the Bible, I believe that all the land animals were made on day six, and Adam and Eve were ...
KEN HAM

World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good ...
KEN FOLLETT

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each...
KEN ROBINSON

Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with li...
KEN JEONG

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in ...
KEN ROBINSON

The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.
KEN VENTURI

A media-only campaign has its advantages, but it also has its very severe disadvantages.
KEN CUCCINELLI

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
KEN KESEY

I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issue...
KEN MEHLMAN

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
KEN BLANCHARD

The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.
KEN KESEY

I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessi...
KEN BLANCHARD

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no l...
KEN BLANCHARD

The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in rel...
KEN BLANCHARD

Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, n...
KEN BLANCHARD

Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.
KEN BLANCHARD

I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.
KEN WILBER

There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.
KEN KESEY

Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not - because the thing they were...
KEN ROBINSON

The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where every...
KEN ROBINSON

I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other is...
KEN BUCK

If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity...
KEN ROBINSON

Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions...
KEN ROBINSON

There's a wealth of talent that lies in all of us. All of us, including those who work in school...
KEN ROBINSON

Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that cre...
KEN ROBINSON

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
KEN ROBINSON

School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much mo...
KEN ROBINSON

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking fo...
KEN ROBINSON

You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, i...
KEN ROBINSON

We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species ...
KEN ROBINSON

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, w...
KEN ROBINSON

Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you'...
KEN ROBINSON

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in ...
KEN ROBINSON

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central c...
KEN ROBINSON

Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply sca...
KEN ROBINSON

All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingnes...
KEN ROBINSON

Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.
KEN ROBINSON

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not ra...
KEN ROBINSON

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curios...
KEN ROBINSON

Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't fee...
KEN ROBINSON

Sadly, when pastors choose to neglect controversial issues, they do great damage to the spiritual gr...
KEN HAM

Because my writing time has always been very limited, I try to be very choosy about which stories I ...
KEN LIU

I was brought up in a Christian home in Australia with a father who was very bold about his faith.
KEN HAM

Geeks like to make things. Indeed, the drive to create is an intrinsic geeky quality (right up there...
KEN DENMEAD

It borders on inconceivable that Clinton didn't know that the emails she received - and, more ob...
KEN CUCCINELLI

Because I've been so bad at looking after myself, how would I ever look after a kid? But the old...
KEN BRUEN

The Singaporean speculative tradition is different. Singapore doesn't conceive itself as the cen...
KEN LIU

One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in te...
KEN ADAM

Many dinosaurs were smaller than chickens.
KEN HAM

Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are ...
KEN HAM

It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain...
KEN KESEY

I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier...
KEN BURNS

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warre...
KEN MACLEOD

I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.
KEN JENNINGS

You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't b...
KEN ROBINSON

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?

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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?

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