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.

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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

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  Lying, Incredibles, Newspapers

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

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  Real, Thinking, Issues

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

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  War, Years, People

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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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• 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.

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  Jobs, Games, People

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

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

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  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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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