Ken Livingstone

Everyone changes all the time.

— Ken Livingstone

I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.

— Ken Livingstone

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

— Ken Livingstone

The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing…

— Ken Livingstone

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

I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself,…

— Ken Livingstone

The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.

— Ken Livingstone

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

— Ken Livingstone

When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates, you have to think, 'You are a complete idiot.'

— Ken Livingstone

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

— Ken Livingstone

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

We look to the left and to the right And we need help but nobody's in sight Where is the man that…

— Ken Livingstone

If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term,…

— Ken Livingstone

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

— Ken Livingstone

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

— Ken Livingstone

My main income is from speaking.

— Ken Livingstone

I grew up in a house with very few books.

— Ken Livingstone

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

— Ken Livingstone

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

— Ken Livingstone

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

— Ken Livingstone

Well, I mean, I'm very much a pragmatic person.

— Ken Livingstone

Well, on lots of small things we could have done better, but on all the big things we called it right. You…

— Ken Livingstone

Well, I get on with people who believe in something.

— Ken Livingstone

I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.

— Ken Livingstone

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

— Ken Livingstone