I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.
I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.
I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.
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 never came into life with any favours or privileges.
I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.
I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.
Everyone changes all the time.
Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.
I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty.
The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.
What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?
I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.
My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.
I've never declined to do an interview.
I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.
I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.
I swim three times a week.
I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Boris [Johnson] and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum].
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