Ken Livingstone Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Ken Livingstone

  Earth, Sun, Feels

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

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• Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

  Ken Livingstone

  House, Needs, Helping

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• Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for. I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people. The Tories take Jewish London for granted. I will not.

  Ken Livingstone

  Ethnicity, People

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

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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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• The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges.

  Ken Livingstone

  Judging, World, British

  The Daily Telegraph, May 17, 1986.

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• To avoid manufactured misunderstandings, the policies of Israeli governments are not analogous to Nazism. They do not aim at the systematic extermination of the Palestinian people, in the way Nazism sought the annihilation of the Jews.

  Ken Livingstone

  Government, People, Nazism

  "This is about Israel, not anti-semitism" by Ken Livingstone, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2005.

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• Boris [Johnson] and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum].

  Ken Livingstone

  War, Referendums, Dave

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• My view is rather than just rage at your impotence you find the best way of achieving as much as you can within whatever constraints there are. It's not the world I would have created but you do what you can within it.

  Ken Livingstone

  Views, World, Way

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

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• Today the Israeli government continues seizures of Palestinian land for settlements, military incursions into surrounding countries and denial of the right of Palestinians expelled by terror to return. Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, is a war criminal who should be in prison, not in office. Israel's own Kahan commission found that Sharon shared responsibility for the Sabra and Shatila massacres.

  Ken Livingstone

  Country, Military, War

  "This is about Israel, not anti-semitism" by Ken Livingstone, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2005.

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Ken Livingstone

  Jobs, Games, People

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

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

  Ken Livingstone

  Britain, Loses

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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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• 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 grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.

  Ken Livingstone

  School, Thinking, Cities

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

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• Give me the whole world to run and then I'll be happy. If tomorrow I was told I had to sort out the whole world's problems I'd sleep like a baby.

  Ken Livingstone

  Running, Baby, Sleep

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