Ken Livingstone Quotes
Top 98 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ken Livingstone
Ken Livingstone Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.
When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates you have to think, you are a complete idiot.
Most people are not shocked that I am occasionally rude to journalists. They are probably amazed I don't punch one in the face.
I feel like Galileo going before the Inquisition to explain that the Sun doesn't revolve around the Earth. I hope I have more success.
Boris [ Johnson]and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum].
I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.
I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers.
Give me the whole world to run and then I'll be happy. If tomorrow I was told I had to sort out the whole world's problems I'd sleep like a baby.
Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you
It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.
I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.
I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.
The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says.
I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.
I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.
To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live
I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.
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?
I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.
I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people.
I don't just denounce suicide bombers. I denounce those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy.
I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.
The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear.
There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.
I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.
We look to the left and to the right And we need help but nobody's in sight Where is the man that we all need Tell him he's to come and rescue me.
Just because I am critical of the coalition doesn't mean I am anti-English. I am just anti-scumbags.
Press TV is one of the few TV channels anywhere in the West that fairly presents the Palestinian case.
If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare.
Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.
I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.
The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.
I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty.
Ed Miliband doesn't give a damn about what he looks like, how he dresses. He came into politics to change society.
I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.
One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.
The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.