185 Quotes by Ken Livingstone

I've never declined to do an interview.

I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.

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

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

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people – not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

I don’t work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.

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.

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

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself – the working-class tradition of self-education.