185 Quotes by Ken Livingstone

The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.

Well, I mean, I'm very much a pragmatic person.

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

I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.

I would like all newspapers to become workers' co-operatives.

I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.

I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.

If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.

I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.