Ken Livingstone
Ken Livingstone
Kenneth Robert "Ken" Livingstoneis an English politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Councilfrom 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as Mayor of London from the creation of the office in 2000 until 2008. He also served as the Member of Parliamentfor Brent East from 1987 to 2001. A suspended member of the Labour Party, he was on the party's hard left, ideologically identifying as a democratic socialist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth17 June 1945
people franklin admire
The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.
media two people
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.
law development needs
There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.
bisexual
Everyone is bisexual. Almost everyone has the sexual potential for anything.
views people socialism
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.
nice trying ambassadors
It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.
giving dresses looks
Ed Miliband doesn't give a damn about what he looks like, how he dresses. He came into politics to change society.
crazy people everyday
World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.
office judgement london
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.
war america issues
All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?
house needs helping
Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.
mistake stage bigs
I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.
hard-work might enough
I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.
school thinking cities
I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.