Top 132 Quotes & Sayings by Ken Livingstone - Page 3

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

My view is rather than just rage at your impotence you find the best way of achieving as much as you can within whatever constraints there are. It's not the world I would have created but you do what you can within it.

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.

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.

If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone.

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

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.

Boris [Johnson] and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum].

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

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

Only some ghastly dehumanised moron would want to get rid of the Routemaster.

Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for. I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people. The Tories take Jewish London for granted. I will not.