Ken Livingstone

My main income is from speaking.

— Ken Livingstone

The civil service are risk averse.

— Ken Livingstone

Politics is not a healthy lifestyle.

— Ken Livingstone

Psephology isn't a hate crime.

— Ken Livingstone

Everyone changes all the time.

— Ken Livingstone

[Pigeons are] rats with wings.

— Ken Livingstone

I do the gardening.

— Ken Livingstone

This life is messy.

— Ken Livingstone

Most kids dont get to go their parents wedding.

— Ken Livingstone

If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.

— Ken Livingstone

I would like all newspapers to become workers' co-operatives.

— Ken Livingstone

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

— Ken Livingstone

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

— Ken Livingstone

My only regret is the media's obsession with the past.

— Ken Livingstone

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

— Ken Livingstone

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

— Ken Livingstone

I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who…

— Ken Livingstone

Thatcher was prepared to destroy the world rather than give in on something she believed in.

— Ken Livingstone

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

— Ken Livingstone

The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what…

— 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

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

— Ken Livingstone

Press TV is one of the few TV channels anywhere in the West that fairly presents the Palestinian case.

— Ken Livingstone

The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges.

— Ken Livingstone

Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to…

— Ken Livingstone

I think George Bush is the most corrupt American president since Harding in the Twenties. He is not the legitimate president. This…

— Ken Livingstone

The market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn't protect the environment unless it's regulated,…

— Ken Livingstone

I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister.…

— Ken Livingstone

I actually think the civil service, who are the malignancy at the heart of public life, have consciously prevented, talked ministers out…

— Ken Livingstone

When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay…

— 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

You can see how actor connects with the audience. That is very much like a politician when youre talking and the audience…

— Ken Livingstone

Today the Israeli government continues seizures of Palestinian land for settlements, military incursions into surrounding countries and denial of the right of…

— Ken Livingstone

The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held…

— Ken Livingstone

I can't understand why anyone would want to live the life of a politician if you can't say pretty much what you…

— Ken Livingstone

I swim three times a week.

— Ken Livingstone

If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It

— Ken Livingstone

I refuse not to have a sense of humour.

— Ken Livingstone

Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for.

— Ken Livingstone

I've never declined to do an interview.

— Ken Livingstone