A biography for Ken Livingstonehasn’t been written yet.
“Psephology isn't a hate crime.”
“If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.”
“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 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.”
“I do the gardening.”
“What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?”
“I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.”
“I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.”
“This life is messy.”
“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.”
“I could not cherish London and not value Jewish London. The contribution of Jews to London is immense - politically, economically, culturally, intellectually, philanthropically, artistically.”
“Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.”
“I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.”
“I refuse not to have a sense of humour.”
“I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.”
“I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.”
“Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.”
“I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.”
“I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.”
“I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.”