Ken Livingstone Quotes

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power.

I say, 'You can never use excuses because they always run out.'

Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.

The form a city assumes as it evolves over time owes more to large-scale works of civil engineering - what we now call infrastructure - than almost any other factor save topography.

Infrastructure sector is all about building assets for the country. It is part of nation building.

What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.

When you take a job, you don't just accept the pats on the back. You have to accept the kicks in the pants.

Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil engineering which makes Britain tick - the bridges, tunnels, power and water networks, which bind us together.

As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options.

I should have worried about taking responsibilities for which I was not ready.

If we do our job right, then we have everything to stand on. If we don't do our job, we have everything to lose on.

Absolute authority will be delegated. Full responsibility will be assumed. Those who succeed will receive advancement and satisfaction of desire. Those who fail will die.

If you don't show up, you lose.

Sometimes you just don't show up, and in our profession, it's a bad day.

You are not guaranteed to be part of that story if you don't perform.

Bridges and stations are very strongly related to the development of a city.

Few people have heard of John Hawkshaw, the engineer responsible for Brighton's sewers, but he also built the Severn Tunnel and parts of the London Underground system. Such figures, largely forgotten now, conceived an infrastructure that was perfect in its fine detail and intended to last for a century or more - as it has.

There will be a focus on infrastructure. The American people had elected a builder to be President of the United States. We're going to work with members of Congress to move forward legislation to fund our infrastructure more effectively in the country.

If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker, and you were walking down a sidewalk, and he fell, that would be completely unacceptable.

I'm not going to let our fans down.

I used to play sports in school, but it was hard to do that because you're part of a team and you don't want to let your team down.

The word infrastructure means nothing to the majority of people of America. We have to come up with a sexier word than infrastructure. So the key thing is that you have to go out and promote and market this the right way like with everything in policy.

"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."

An interesting thing about New York City is that the subways run through the sewers.