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

  Ken Livingstone

  Crazy, People, Everyday

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

  Ken Livingstone

  Lying, Incredibles, Newspapers

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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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• 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 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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• 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 am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.

  Ken Livingstone

  Israel, Zionist

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• I think George Bush is the most corrupt American president since Harding in the Twenties. He is not the legitimate president. This really is a completely unsupportable government and I look forward to it being overthrown as much as I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being overthrown.

  Ken Livingstone

  Thinking, Government, President

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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

  Country, Rights, World

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• 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.

  Ken Livingstone

  Views, Order, Needs

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

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