Quote

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

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
School
Trying
Think
Gates
Thinking
Idiot
Round
Rounds
Complete
Someone

More quotes by Ken Livingstone

Image
I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.
Ken Livingstone
Image
I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT.
Ken Livingstone
Image
The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.
Ken Livingstone
Image
I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
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
I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.
Ken Livingstone
Image
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.
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 think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.
Ken Livingstone
Image
I don't just denounce suicide bombers. I denounce those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy.
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
I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.
Ken Livingstone
Image
My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.
Ken Livingstone
Image
I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.
Ken Livingstone
Image
If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It
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 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.
Ken Livingstone
Image
The American agenda is sweeping everything before it, and although it's not perfect, the EU is better on environmental issues. It's a less rapacious form of capitalism.
Ken Livingstone
Image
[Pigeons are] rats with wings.
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