185 Quotes by Ken Livingstone

To tackle climate change you don’t have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live.

I think democracy’s undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.

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.

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

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

Politics is not a game. Thousands of people’s jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could.

The market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn’t protect the environment unless it’s regulated, it doesn’t train your workforce unless it’s regulated, and it doesn’t give you the long-term investment you want.

I’ve got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people.

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.