Ken Livingstone Quotes

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• The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.

  Ken Livingstone

  Running, Country, Monsters

  "Preview: Ken Livingstone: 'The world is run by monsters'". Interview with Jemima Khan, www.newstatesman.com. February 8, 2012.

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• If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It

  Ken Livingstone

  Democracies Have, Political, Voting

  Ken Livingstone (2011). “You Can't Say That: Memoirs”, p.49, Faber & Faber

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• When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible.

  Ken Livingstone

  Power, Worst Nightmares, People

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

  Ken Livingstone

  Wine, Mps, Bars

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

  Ken Livingstone

  Crazy, People, Everyday

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• Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.

  Ken Livingstone

  War, Years, People

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

  Ken Livingstone

  People, Politics, Waste

  "The Guardian profile: Ken Livingstone" by Kevin Maguire, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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

  Ken Livingstone

  Trying, Warfare, Noses

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

  Ken Livingstone

  Real, Thinking, Issues

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• 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.

  Ken Livingstone

  Voice, Sound, Prime

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• To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live

  Ken Livingstone

  Quality, Climate, Way

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• I feel like Galileo going before the Inquisition to explain that the Sun doesn't revolve around the Earth. I hope I have more success.

  Ken Livingstone

  Earth, Sun, Feels

  1999 Before his interview for selection as Labour's nominee for Mayor of London

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• Today the Israeli government continues seizures of Palestinian land for settlements, military incursions into surrounding countries and denial of the right of Palestinians expelled by terror to return. Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, is a war criminal who should be in prison, not in office. Israel's own Kahan commission found that Sharon shared responsibility for the Sabra and Shatila massacres.

  Ken Livingstone

  Country, Military, War

  "This is about Israel, not anti-semitism" by Ken Livingstone, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2005.

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• 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.

  Ken Livingstone

  Long, Giving, Want

  "I would have loved to be PM" by John Harris, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2008.

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

  Ken Livingstone

  Equality, Law, Needs

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• I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

  Ken Livingstone

  Lying, Incredibles, Newspapers

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• You can't expect to work for the Daily Mail group and have the rest of society treat with you respect as a useful member of society, because you are not.

  Ken Livingstone

  Groups, Daily Mail, Treats

  "Livingstone Fails to Get Disrepute Charge Dropped". www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2005.

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

  Ken Livingstone

  Serial Killer, Assassins, Killers

  2000 On Margaret Thatcher. In The Times, 7 Mar.

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

  Ken Livingstone

  Gay, Years, Wings

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• I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I go. I'm paying the normal rate of tax on the money I take out for myself.

  Ken Livingstone

  Years, Wife, Three

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

  Ken Livingstone

  Issues, Ugly, Politician

  "Ken Livingstone: It's policies that matter this time, not personalities". Interview with Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2012.

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• 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.

  Ken Livingstone

  Mistake, Bigs, Stage

  "Ken Livingstone: 'It's an autobiography, not porn'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• You cannot just have a socialist revolution in Norwood and nowhere else.

  Ken Livingstone

  Revolution, Socialist

  "Citizen Ken". Book by John Carvel, 1984.

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• The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held and always called them for Friday afternoons, knowing that three or four of the richer Tories went to the country early and were not prepared to stay in the city beyond lunchtime. I realised that nothing in politics is new when I read in Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars that Julius Caesar pulled the same trick when reactionaries in the senate were making his life difficult.

  Ken Livingstone

  Friday, Country, Cities

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• Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could.

  Ken Livingstone

  Jobs, Games, People

  Ken Livingstone (1987). “If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it”, HarperCollins

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