Ken Livingstone Quotes
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Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.
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I can't think of a more appalling contrast between this wedding beanfeast and what is happening in Ireland.
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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.
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I grew up in a house with very few books.
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Most politicians aren't allowed to express themselves any more.
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If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.
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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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I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.
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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 go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
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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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Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.
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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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My political beliefs are my moral, quasi-religious framework.
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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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If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.
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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.
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I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.
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I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
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I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
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Well, I get on with people who believe in something.
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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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I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.