185 Quotes by Ken Livingstone

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.

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.

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.

I actually think the civil service, who are the malignancy at the heart of public life, have consciously prevented, talked ministers out of, made it difficult regulatory-wise, to allow more pressure on alternative energy sources to grow.

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

My political beliefs are my moral, quasi-religious framework.

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.

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

I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.