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 More Quotes by Ken Livingstone More 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. Ken Livingstone monstersrunningcountry World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy. Ken Livingstone everydaycrazypeople 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 worst-nightmarespowerpeople The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster. Ken Livingstone mpsbarswine I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers. Ken Livingstone gaywingsyears Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could. Ken Livingstone gamesjobspeople I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I go. I'm paying the normal rate of tax on the money I take out for myself. Ken Livingstone wifethreeyears Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know. Ken Livingstone warpeopleyears Just because I am critical of the coalition doesn't mean I am anti-English. I am just anti-scumbags. Ken Livingstone coalitionsscumbagsmean I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues. Ken Livingstone uglyissuespolitician If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare. Ken Livingstone warfarenosestrying 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 primevoicesound 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 issueswaramerica The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held and always called them for Friday afternoons, knowing that three or four of the richer Tories went to the country early and were not prepared to stay in the city beyond lunchtime. I realised that nothing in politics is new when I read in Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars that Julius Caesar pulled the same trick when reactionaries in the senate were making his life difficult. Ken Livingstone fridaycitiescountry I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law. Ken Livingstone rationalsocialistlaw 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 maoerasfeet You cannot just have a socialist revolution in Norwood and nowhere else. Ken Livingstone socialistrevolution Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it. Ken Livingstone gdpfourthree There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work. Ken Livingstone equalitylawneeds Ed Miliband doesn't give a damn about what he looks like, how he dresses. He came into politics to change society. Ken Livingstone dressesgivinglooks
