Ken Livingstone Quotes - Page 4

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

Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.

Well, on lots of small things we could have done better, but on all the big things we called it right. You should make less mistakes as you get older, and 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.

The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.

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

Most kids dont get to go their parents wedding.

I don't just denounce suicide bombers. I denounce those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy.

If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone.

I think George Bush is the most corrupt American president since Harding in the Twenties. He is not the legitimate president. This really is a completely unsupportable government and I look forward to it being overthrown as much as I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being overthrown.

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.

I feel a degree of regret that Marshall did not push on and say 'abolish the GLC' because I think it would have been a major saving and would have released massive resources for productive use.

The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear.

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

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.

I grew up in a house with very few books.

I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.

What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.

I never came into life with any favours or privileges.

I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.

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

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.

We look to the left and to the right And we need help but nobody's in sight Where is the man that we all need Tell him he's to come and rescue me.

[Pigeons are] rats with wings.

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