Ken Livingstone Quotes (34 Quotes)

But when reporters say to me I'm only doing this because it's my job... that's the same abdication of moral responsibility at the thin end of the wedge that in its most extreme and horrific version ends up with others being prepared to stand as a concentration camp guard.

We want to try and build very strong links between London and Beijing.

What a squalid and irresponsible little profession it is. Nothing prepares you for how bad Fleet Street really is until it craps on you from a great height.

Londoners will be wondering what the RMT actually want. They are getting a 35-hour week with no loss of pay and no reduction in staffing.

Texas playing Tower Bridge will be a combination of the modern and the best of the old that reflects the breadth of what London stands for. I am very pleased to give my backing to this unique event Virgin Radio and Texas are putting on.

It is a radical policy which will help under-16s access London's education facilities and attractions, ... Young people should make full use of it but they should also realize that anyone who abuses the concession will have it withdrawn.

Any attempt to try to help Bush avoid protesters would be inconceivable, ... To create a situation in which perhaps 60,000 people remain unseen would require a shutdown of central London which is just not acceptable.

We hope this agreement will foster an environment in which London and Beijing can become closer business partners and develop a deeper cultural understanding through the exchange of tourists and students.

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

Londoners and visitors have so much to see and do and now is the right time to get out there and experience the best of the capital,

These excellent GCSE results are positive news for parents and children and London as a whole.

People say a lot of silly things during an election campaign, and then afterwards they have to work with the reality of what voters have done,

This decision strikes at the heart of democracy. Elected politicians should only be able to be removed by the voters or for breaking the law.

There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

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.

Three members of a body that no one has ever elected should not be allowed to overturn the votes of millions of Londoners.

Under foreign occupation and denied a right to vote, denied the right to run your own affairs ... I suspect that if it had happened here in England we would have produced a lot of suicide bombers ourselves,

Here is a radical and reforming commissioner making major changes to the police who has many enemies in there, who really don't want to see those changes,

It really is remarkable that the richest country in the world topped the congestion charge non-payers' league over the last six months.

Big problem over next week's conference. Jack's down to do a fringe meeting with Ken Livingstone but it clashes with the launch of Wendy Alexander's book on Donald Dewar. Jack, of course, simply has to be there, because big Brown is turning up as well. Any chance Jack can get to share the same room with Gordon at the moment he grabs. So I had to ring up to persuade Livingstone to cancel to give us an excuse to call off as well. Pity, ... I always like sharing a stage with Jack. It makes me look even smarter.

I would have thought that for the organizers of the Tour de France, the benefit of coming to London is having famous sites in the background as the cyclists whiz past.

Actually you are just like a concentration camp guard. You're just doing it because you're paid to, aren't you

I want to try and create an administration which will be all-encompassing, reach across parties and try to achieve a position where the new (Greater London Assembly) speaks with one voice,

one of the greatest statesmen of our time and help bring this internationally important public space into the 21st century.

We believe that the fight against terrorism requires a broad consensus around its means and the involvement of all communities to isolate and defeat those who would use terror to divide us,

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.

A lot of people have had a really hard summer in July and August, it is money they can't get back again.

But I don't just denounce suicide bombers. I denounce those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy.

It is the first ever time we have closed Oxford Street to traffic. Today is about getting people into London. We want to make certain that shops make a real benefit out of this.

I am proud to announce that London has successfully bid to host the Grand Depart of the Tour de France in July 2007.

It is important now for Blair to accept that foreign policy is a serious concern and to start to do something about it rather than being seen to brush it aside. ... must be directed against those carrying out, planning or supporting such terrorist attacks and not against those who are our allies in dealing with the terrorists.

I actually think it's what he represents they don't want to see depicted, because in that square one Nelson signifies the birth of the British empire and 100 years of global dominance, ... Nelson Mandela would signify the peaceful transition to a multiracial and multicultural world, and I would be proud to have that in London.

We've closed the gap on Paris, but the truth is, Paris is still ahead, ... No city is close to a majority on the first ballot.