Ken Livingstone

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

— Ken Livingstone

When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.

— Ken Livingstone

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…

— Ken Livingstone

I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly…

— Ken Livingstone

I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.

— Ken Livingstone

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

— Ken Livingstone

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

— Ken Livingstone

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

I feel a degree of regret that Marshall did not push on and say 'abolish the GLC' because I think it would…

— Ken Livingstone

I could not cherish London and not value Jewish London. The contribution of Jews to London is immense - politically, economically, culturally,…

— 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

I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I…

— Ken Livingstone

It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying…

— Ken Livingstone

What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of…

— Ken Livingstone

I take a much more pragmatic view than many people on the Left about working with Neil Kinnock. Kinnock represents the best…

— Ken Livingstone

The American agenda is sweeping everything before it, and although it's not perfect, the EU is better on environmental issues. It's a…

— Ken Livingstone

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

Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.

— Ken Livingstone

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

— Ken Livingstone

Everyone is bisexual. Almost everyone has the sexual potential for anything.

— Ken Livingstone

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength…

— Ken Livingstone

I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.

— Ken Livingstone

If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.

— Ken Livingstone

I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I…

— Ken Livingstone

I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers.

— Ken Livingstone

I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because…

— Ken Livingstone

There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

— Ken Livingstone

I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.

— Ken Livingstone

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

— Ken Livingstone

I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.

— 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

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

Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.

— Ken Livingstone

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

— Ken Livingstone

Boris [Johnson] and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum].

— 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

I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT.

— Ken Livingstone

My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.

— 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

I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.

— Ken Livingstone