Ken Livingstone Thinking Quotations

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

I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.

I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.

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

When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates you have to think, you are a complete idiot.

I think George Bush is the most corrupt American president since Harding in the Twenties. He is not the legitimate president. This really is a completely unsupportable government and I look forward to it being overthrown as much as I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being overthrown.

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.