185 Quotes by Ken Livingstone

The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held and always called them for Friday afternoons, knowing that three or four of the richer Tories went to the country early and were not prepared to stay in the city beyond lunchtime. I realised that nothing in politics is new when I read in Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars that Julius Caesar pulled the same trick when reactionaries in the senate were making his life difficult.

I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.

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.

I never came into life with any favours or privileges.

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

My only regret is the media's obsession with the past.

The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges.

Thatcher was prepared to destroy the world rather than give in on something she believed in.

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.