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

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  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.

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  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.

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  Wine, Mps, Bars

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

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  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.

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

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  Mean, Scumbags, Coalitions

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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.

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  Voice, Sound, Prime

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

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

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  Trying, Warfare, Noses

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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?

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  War, America, Issues

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

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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.

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  Friday, Country, Cities

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

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  Giving, Dresses, Looks

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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.

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  Feet, Eras, Mao

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

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

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  Revolution, Socialist

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

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

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  Gdp, Three, Four

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

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  Equality, Law, Needs

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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.

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  Earth, Sun, Feels

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

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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.

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

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  Quality, Climate, Way

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

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  Britain, Loses

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

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  Serial Killer, Assassins, Killers

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

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