Ken Livingstone Quotes

I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it. But you pay corporation tax. If you're then taking it out and spending it on yourself, you have to pay more.

Give me the whole world to run and then I'll be happy. If tomorrow I was told I had to sort out the whole world's problems I'd sleep like a baby.

I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.

The market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn't protect the environment unless it's regulated, it doesn't train your workforce unless it's regulated, and it doesn't give you the long-term investment you want.

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

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 achieving socialism now.

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 and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.

Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you

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 try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.

I refuse not to have a sense of humour.

When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay between the cleaner and the director general was a four-to-one ratio. I find that attractive.

I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.

If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

Ed Miliband doesn't give a damn about what he looks like, how he dresses. He came into politics to change society.

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