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
judging world british
The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges.
views world way
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.
running people world
I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.
running country world
The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.
country rights world
I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.
build links london strong
We want to try and build very strong links between London and Beijing.
immense jewish jews
I could not cherish London and not value Jewish London. The contribution of Jews to London is immense - politically, economically, culturally, intellectually, philanthropically, artistically.
anyone life money politician pressure understand
I can't understand why anyone would want to live the life of a politician if you can't say pretty much what you think. You are not in it for the money: there's unremitting pressure on your life, you give up so much of your privacy. It can only be because of the things you want to do and the things you want to say.
came carry change lying politics wished
I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.
anywhere channels fairly few tv
Press TV is one of the few TV channels anywhere in the West that fairly presents the Palestinian case.
I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.
I would like all newspapers to become workers' co-operatives.
Well, I mean, I'm very much a pragmatic person.
The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.