I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; you have to educate,… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
I take a much more pragmatic view than many people on the Left about working with Neil Kinnock. Kinnock represents the best… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for. I do explicitly see Jewish people as a… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
To avoid manufactured misunderstandings, the policies of Israeli governments are not analogous to Nazism. They do not aim at the systematic extermination… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
Most people are not shocked that I am occasionally rude to journalists. They are probably amazed I don't punch one in the… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
I don't just denounce suicide bombers. I denounce those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing about it,… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates, you have to think, 'You are a complete idiot.' — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
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… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
