Ken Livingstone Quotes

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• If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It
• To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live
• Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you
• 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…
• There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.
• Everyone is bisexual. Almost everyone has the sexual potential for anything.
• I take a much more pragmatic view than many people on the Left about working with Neil Kinnock. Kinnock represents the best vehicle possible for…
• It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually…
• Ed Miliband doesn't give a damn about what he looks like, how he dresses. He came into politics to change society.
• World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.
• I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly…
• 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 don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.
• I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.
• I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.
• I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.
• 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…
• I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ…
• The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.

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