Ken Livingstone Quotes
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Most politicians aren't allowed to express themselves any more.
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Nothing could have been greater than the pride of serving this city. I do not believe - I am sure I speak for my colleagues on all sides - nothing else that happens to us in our lives will be as rewarding and fulfilling as the years that we have spent in this building.
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I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.
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I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.
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The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.
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I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
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If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.
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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.
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I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.
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In this city 300 languages are spoken and the people that speak them live side by side in harmony. This city typifies what I believe is the future of the human race and a future where we grow together and we share and we learn from each other.
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I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
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My political beliefs are my moral, quasi-religious framework.
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I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it. But you pay corporation tax. If you're then taking it out and spending it on yourself, you have to pay more.
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World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.
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I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
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If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.
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I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.
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Well, I get on with people who believe in something.
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I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I go. I'm paying the normal rate of tax on the money I take out for myself.
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Most people are not shocked that I am occasionally rude to journalists. They are probably amazed I don't punch one in the face.
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I grew up in a house with very few books.
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Psephology isn't a hate crime.
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Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.
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I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.