Ken Livingstone Quotes

There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It

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.

The American agenda is sweeping everything before it, and although it's not perfect, the EU is better on environmental issues. It's a less rapacious form of capitalism.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

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

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

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

Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.

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

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

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.

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.

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

You can't expect to work for the Daily Mail group and have the rest of society treat with you respect as a useful member of society, because you are not.

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.

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

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

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

I grew up in a house with very few books.

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

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

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

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.

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

I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.

[Pigeons are] rats with wings.

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.

Most kids dont get to go their parents wedding.

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

I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.

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

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