Quotes from Ken Livingstone

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.

I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.

Most kids dont get to go their parents wedding.

My main income is from speaking.

I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.

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.

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.

One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.

If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.

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.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

You can't expect to work for the Daily Mail group and have the rest of society treat with you respect as a useful member of society, because you are not.

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

I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.

I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.

If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone.

I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.

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?

I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.

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.