Ken Livingstone Quotes

I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work! I don't really have the personality for that.

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.

Sometimes political parties have a very short window to influence public policy

If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have to make basic changes?

Once Justin decided to go on the political scene, all the spotlights were on him. I think we've done pretty well finding a balance and a centre. It's a very scrutinized life.

There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office.

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Most people wouldn't want to marry a politician.

For someone like me who, as a kid, walked to school muttering little political speeches to myself, it was irresistible to finally get a chance at political life for real. When the people of Etobicoke-Lakeshore elected me their MP, it changed me forever.

I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.

I am not a politician and I have no intention of being one.

I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage.

Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics.

If you run for public office today you must be prepared for a massive invasion of privacy.

What Congress does is respond to pressures that are upon it.

One of the reasons for retiring from public life was to avoid further speechmaking.

Politicians livelihoods depend on what people think.

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order.

If elected, I shall consider the whole people of Sangamon my constituents, as well those that oppose as those that support me. While acting as their representative I shall be governed by their will on all subjects upon which I have the means of knowing what their will is.

No free subject ought to be under the least restraint in respect to accusing the greatest, so long as his accusation strikes only at the political conduct of the accused: his private we have no right to meddle with

Men in political life must be ambitious.

No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.

It’s always open season on the personal lives of presidents or presidential candidates.

A man’s got to walk if he is going to be in politics.