Ken Livingstone Quotes

Well, Bill, I don't think you're going to find many shy people that are in the political business.

Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood.

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.

If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.

I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.

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

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 want to be prime minister.

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics, is still the greatest and most honorable adventure.

You're running to be prime minister - it's hard to be the person who makes jokes.

I'm an opposition leader. But Mr Modi is also my prime minister. Mr Modi has certain skills. He's a very good communicator.

I was encouraged to stand for Parliament by David Cameron, and he has given me the opportunity to serve in what I believe is a great, reforming government. I think he is an outstanding Prime Minister.

I became a prime minister within four-and-a-half years, the shortest kind of career ever in Israeli political history.

Would I love to think that one day I would be First Minister of an independent Scotland? Of course.

What gets you out of bed in the morning? This is a question I'm often asked as a politician. It tends to be closely followed by a dozen other questions about what I'll do in 'x' scenario or whether I'll resign if 'y' happens.

Of course I have had thoughts about going into politics.

I want to become prime minister.

Do I want to be premier? Yes, I do.

I'm lucky that I have a deep, strong voice naturally, and the rest of it I just worked on as far as confidence and projecting myself.

I want to be Prime Minister, but I will stand for Mayor of London first.

I don't think I would be a good politician. I kid about it when I get a standing ovation. Sometimes I'll say, "I may run for Governor," but it's strictly a joke.

I went through voice coaching. I was absolutely terrified. I thought my knees were going to buckle, and the first couple of takes I sounded like a pubescent boy. I didn't realise I was going to have to do it live.

I've heard the call. I believe God wants me to run for president.

There is little doubt that, until 1846 when he helped to engineer the resignation of Robert Peel, Disraeli was driven by an ambition to make his mark rather than by any consistent political purpose, and that his attacks on Peel would have not have been so mounted had he been given in 1841 the office for which he had asked.