Ken Livingstone Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  Ken Livingstone

  Nice, Trying, Crooks

  "U.S.A. Is No. 1, on London List of Traffic Fees" by Alan Cowell, www.nytimes.com. May 02, 2006.

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• The American agenda is sweeping everything before it, and although it's not perfect, the EU is better on environmental issues. It's a less rapacious form of capitalism.

  Ken Livingstone

  Issues, Perfect, Environmental

  "Bush Will Doom Us Says London Mayor". www.aljazeera.com. November 19, 2003.

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• All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?

  Ken Livingstone

  War, America, Issues

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

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

  Ken Livingstone

  Giving, Dresses, Looks

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• You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.

  Ken Livingstone

  Britain, Loses

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

  Ken Livingstone

  Mean, Scumbags, Coalitions

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

  Ken Livingstone

  Gdp, Three, Four

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• I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.

  Ken Livingstone

  Law, Socialist, Rational

  "Ken Livingstone tells Jewish Chronicle of his contrition over leaked remarks" by Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.

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• I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.

  Ken Livingstone

  Running, People, World

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• One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.

  Ken Livingstone

  Feet, Eras, Mao

  "Ken Defends Mao, and Puts His Foot in It... Again". www.independent.co.uk. May 17, 2006.

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• Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.

  Ken Livingstone

  Cutting, Racism, Movement

  "This Is About Israel, Not Anti-Semitism". www.theguardian.com. March 04, 2005.

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

  Ken Livingstone

  Family, Long, Lamps

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• I swim three times a week.

  Ken Livingstone

  Swim, Three, Week

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• 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.

  Ken Livingstone

  Mean, Giving, Different

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• 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.

  Ken Livingstone

  Gay, Rights, London

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• Most kids dont get to go their parents wedding.

  Ken Livingstone

  Kids, Parent

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

  Ken Livingstone

  Want, Moron, Ghastly

  "Livingstone and the 'morons' have killed off the Routemaster" by Philip Johnston, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 24, 2005.

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• 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.

  Ken Livingstone

  Years, Differences, Leader

  "Ken Livingstone praises 'visionary' Ed Miliband" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2012.

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• Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth.

  Ken Livingstone

  Voting, Income, Done

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• There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough.

  Ken Livingstone

  Needs, London, Desperate

  Socialist Organiser, March 1979.

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• I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.

  Ken Livingstone

  Self, Class, Tradition

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• What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.

  Ken Livingstone

  Forever, Teens, Awakening

  "Ken Livingstone Interviewed: Boris, The Other Boris, Music, Politics & London". Interview with Luke Turner, thequietus.com. September 23, 2010.

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• It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.

  Ken Livingstone

  Art, People, Criticism

  "Art attack - mayor and sculptor in war of words over Mandela statue", www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2005.

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• When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates, you have to think, 'You are a complete idiot.'

  Ken Livingstone

  School, Thinking, Trying

  "Livingstone: 4X4s drivers are idiots", www.standard.co.uk. May 21, 2004.

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• 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.

  Ken Livingstone

  Office, Judgement, London

  "Livingstone sworn in as London mayor" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2000.

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