I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.
I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.
Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.
If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.
I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
Now I have children of my own. They ask their mother what will I be. Will I be handsome, will I be rich?
This will be my last contract. I wanted it to be a good one.
The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.
They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors.
And I thought, my God, there's an off chance that they will say something that's really worth preserving and there is one way to do that and I knew what it was because I come from television.
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.