Ken Livingstone Quotes

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.

If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It

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

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.

The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster.

Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you

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

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.