Ken Livingstone Quotes
-
All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?
→ -
World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.
→ -
Only some ghastly dehumanised moron would want to get rid of the Routemaster.
→ -
When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates, you have to think, 'You are a complete idiot.'
→ -
Just because I am critical of the coalition doesn't mean I am anti-English. I am just anti-scumbags.
→ -
Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you
→ -
The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held and always called them for Friday afternoons, knowing that three or four of the richer Tories went to the country early and were not prepared to stay in the city beyond lunchtime. I realised that nothing in politics is new when I read in Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars that Julius Caesar pulled the same trick when reactionaries in the senate were making his life difficult.
→ -
I feel a degree of regret that Marshall did not push on and say 'abolish the GLC' because I think it would have been a major saving and would have released massive resources for productive use.
→ -
I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
→ -
I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
→ -
Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth.
→ -
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.
→ -
I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.
→ -
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.
→ -
The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster.
→ -
Everyone is bisexual. Almost everyone has the sexual potential for anything.
→ -
Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.
→ -
I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.
→ -
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.
→ -
Today the Israeli government continues seizures of Palestinian land for settlements, military incursions into surrounding countries and denial of the right of Palestinians expelled by terror to return. Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, is a war criminal who should be in prison, not in office. Israel's own Kahan commission found that Sharon shared responsibility for the Sabra and Shatila massacres.
→ -
I grew up in a house with very few books.
→ -
The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.
→ -
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.
→ -
Everyone changes all the time.
→ -
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.
→ -
I don't just denounce suicide bombers. I denounce those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy.
→ -
I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.
→ -
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.
→ -
Well, on lots of small things we could have done better, but on all the big things we called it right. You should make less mistakes as you get older, and 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.
→ -
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.
→