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If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war. — Ken Livingstone

I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister. — Ken Livingstone

Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high. — Ken Livingstone

The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative. — Ken Livingstone

When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates you have to think, you are a complete idiot. — Ken Livingstone

Most people are not shocked that I am occasionally rude to journalists. They are probably amazed I don't punch one in the face. — Ken Livingstone

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. — Ken Livingstone

Everyone changes all the time. — Ken Livingstone

World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy. — Ken Livingstone

If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems. — Ken Livingstone

You cannot just have a socialist revolution in Norwood and nowhere else. — Ken Livingstone

If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone. — Ken Livingstone

I never came into life with any favours or privileges. — Ken Livingstone

Boris [ Johnson]and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum]. — Ken Livingstone

My only regret is the media's obsession with the past. — Ken Livingstone

I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage. — Ken Livingstone

I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone. — Trevor Phillips

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education. — Ken Livingstone

My political beliefs are my moral, quasi-religious framework. — Ken Livingstone

There isn't much about my life that's been particularly conventional. — Ken Livingstone

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. — Ken Livingstone

Most politicians aren't allowed to express themselves any more. — Ken Livingstone

I have no interest in managing my financial affairs. — Ken Livingstone

I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers. — Ken Livingstone

Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you — Ken Livingstone

Everyone is bisexual. Almost everyone has the sexual potential for anything. — Ken Livingstone

I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. — Ken Livingstone

I do the gardening. — Ken Livingstone

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. — Ken Livingstone

I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues. — Ken Livingstone

Psephology isn't a hate crime. — Ken Livingstone

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. — Ken Livingstone

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. — Ken Livingstone

The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says. — Ken Livingstone

I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid. — Ken Livingstone

I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts. — Ken Livingstone

The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to. — Ken Livingstone

To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live — Ken Livingstone

You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again. — Ken Livingstone

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. — Ken Livingstone

I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life. — Ken Livingstone

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? — Ken Livingstone

Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it. — Ken Livingstone

Jewish voters are not one homogenous block. — Ken Livingstone

Only some ghastly dehumanised moron would want to get rid of the Routemaster. — Ken Livingstone

I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises. — Ken Livingstone

I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive. — Ken Livingstone

This life is messy. — Ken Livingstone

I grew up in a house with very few books. — Ken Livingstone

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies. — Ken Livingstone

Politics is not a healthy lifestyle. — Ken Livingstone

Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. — Ken Livingstone

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. — Ken Livingstone

Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for. — Ken Livingstone

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career. — Ken Livingstone

The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear. — Ken Livingstone

When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself. — Ken Livingstone

I would like all newspapers to become workers' co-operatives. — Ken Livingstone

Thatcher was prepared to destroy the world rather than give in on something she believed in. — Ken Livingstone

My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London. — Ken Livingstone

There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work. — Ken Livingstone

What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us? — Ken Livingstone

I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them. — Ken Livingstone

I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think. — Ken Livingstone

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. — Ken Livingstone

I've never declined to do an interview. — Ken Livingstone

Well, I mean, I'm very much a pragmatic person. — Ken Livingstone

I refuse not to have a sense of humour. — Ken Livingstone

I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law. — Ken Livingstone

Just because I am critical of the coalition doesn't mean I am anti-English. I am just anti-scumbags. — Ken Livingstone

My main income is from speaking. — Ken Livingstone

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people. — Ken Livingstone

[Pigeons are] rats with wings. — Ken Livingstone

Press TV is one of the few TV channels anywhere in the West that fairly presents the Palestinian case. — Ken Livingstone

If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare. — Ken Livingstone

Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding. — Ken Livingstone

Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know. — Ken Livingstone

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. — Ken Livingstone

The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges. — Ken Livingstone

I don't just denounce suicide bombers. I denounce those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy. — Ken Livingstone

I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT. — Ken Livingstone

I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear. — Ken Livingstone

Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced. — Ken Livingstone

I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues. — Ken Livingstone

I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied. — Ken Livingstone

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. — Ken Livingstone

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics. — Ken Livingstone

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. — Ken Livingstone

I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists. — Ken Livingstone

The civil service are risk averse. — Ken Livingstone

Ed Miliband doesn't give a damn about what he looks like, how he dresses. He came into politics to change society. — Ken Livingstone

I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world. — Ken Livingstone

One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era. — Ken Livingstone

Well, I get on with people who believe in something. — Ken Livingstone

I wouldn't vote for Ken Livingstone if he were running for mayor of Toytown. — Arthur Scargill

I swim three times a week. — Ken Livingstone

The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them. — Ken Livingstone

Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could. — Ken Livingstone

Most people wouldn't want to marry a politician. — Ken Livingstone

The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster. — Ken Livingstone