Ken Livingstone Quotes
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If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.
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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 go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
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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'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 have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.
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I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
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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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My political beliefs are my moral, quasi-religious framework.
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I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.
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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 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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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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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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World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.
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Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.
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I grew up in a house with very few books.
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I take a much more pragmatic view than many people on the Left about working with Neil Kinnock. Kinnock represents the best vehicle possible for achieving socialism now.
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Psephology isn't a hate crime.
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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'm not in favour of the army, I'm in favour of replacing it with armed workers' brigades to defend the factories.