When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid. — 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
