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Ken Livingstone Quotes

born 1945 England

Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born 17 June 1945) is an English politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as Mayor of London from the creation of the office in 2000 until 2008. He also served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent East from 1987 to 2001.

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

I can't think of a more appalling contrast between this wedding beanfeast and what is happening in Ireland.

I take a much more pragmatic view than many people on the Left about working with Neil Kinnock. Kinnock represents the best vehicle possible for achieving socialism now.

When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates you have to think, you are a complete idiot.

Only some ghastly dehumanised moron would want to get rid of the Routemaster.

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

The next election will bring an influx of over 120 new MPs who will be overwhelmingly on the Left.

What a squalid and irresponsible little profession it is. Nothing prepares you for how bad Fleet Street really is until it craps on you from a great height.

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.

I'm not in favour of the army, I'm in favour of replacing it with armed workers' brigades to defend the factories.

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.

It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.

I am not in favour of any parental choice in education. You will go to your local school.

If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It

Title of his autobiography (1987)

Everyone is bisexual. Almost everyone has the sexual potential for anything.

Perhaps if they're not happy here they can go back to Iran and try their luck with ayatollahs, if they don't like the planning regime or my approach.

There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough.

He asked to see me again. I think he wants me for my body.

One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.

As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted 14 years ago...

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ken Livingstone (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.