Quote

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.

Ken Livingstone

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ken Livingstone
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 17
Autobiographer
Broadcaster
Former Mayor Of London
Politician
Kenneth Robert Livingstone
Kenneth Robert Ken Livingstone
Looks
Ordinary
Like
Fine
People
Art
Persons
Statue
Person
Statues
Look
Arts
Wells
Degrees
Well
Criticism

More quotes by Ken Livingstone

Image
Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.
Ken Livingstone
Image
When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates, you have to think, 'You are a complete idiot.'
Ken Livingstone
Image
I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.
Ken Livingstone
Image
I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
Ken Livingstone
Image
I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers.
Ken Livingstone
Image
One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.
Ken Livingstone
Image
Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.
Ken Livingstone
Image
If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
Ken Livingstone
Image
I refuse not to have a sense of humour.
Ken Livingstone
Image
To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live
Ken Livingstone
Image
We look to the left and to the right And we need help but nobody's in sight Where is the man that we all need Tell him he's to come and rescue me.
Ken Livingstone
Image
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.
Ken Livingstone
Image
I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.
Ken Livingstone
Image
Well, on lots of small things we could have done better, but on all the big things we called it right. You should make less mistakes as you get older, and 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.
Ken Livingstone
Image
I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
Ken Livingstone
Image
When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible.
Ken Livingstone
Image
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?
Ken Livingstone
Image
Just because I am critical of the coalition doesn't mean I am anti-English. I am just anti-scumbags.
Ken Livingstone
Image
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.
Ken Livingstone
Image
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.
Ken Livingstone