185 Quotes by Ken Livingstone

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.

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

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.

If Voting Changed Anything They’d Abolish It.

I’m never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty.

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.

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.

I’ve always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I’ve had less than one day a year off in my working career.

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.