Ken Livingstone People Quotations

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

The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.

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 take a much more pragmatic view than many people on the Left about working with Neil Kinnock. Kinnock represents the best vehicle possible for achieving socialism now.

World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.

The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear.

To avoid manufactured misunderstandings, the policies of Israeli governments are not analogous to Nazism. They do not aim at the systematic extermination of the Palestinian people, in the way Nazism sought the annihilation of the Jews.

When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible.

Most people wouldn't want to marry a politician.

Well, I get on with people who believe in something.

It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.

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.

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

I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.

I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.

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

Most people are not shocked that I am occasionally rude to journalists. They are probably amazed I don't punch one in the face.

Cycling is the fastest, cheapest, most healthy and environmentally friendly way to get around London, and more and more people are taking it up, ... The number of cyclists has doubled over the last five years, while those killed or seriously injured ... has fallen by 40%.