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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.

I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it. But you pay corporation tax. If you're then taking it out and spending it on yourself, you have to pay more.

Ken Livingstone

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.

Ken Livingstone

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

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

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

Ken Livingstone

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

Ken Livingstone

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

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

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

Ken Livingstone

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

Ken Livingstone

My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.

Ken Livingstone

Most people wouldn't want to marry a politician.

Ken Livingstone

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

Ken Livingstone

I grew up in a house with very few books.

Ken Livingstone

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

Well, I get on with people who believe in something.

Ken Livingstone

You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.

Ken Livingstone

The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing about it, wouldn't they?

Ken Livingstone

World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.

Ken Livingstone

I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.

Ken Livingstone

Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.

Ken Livingstone

I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.

Ken Livingstone

I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.

Ken Livingstone

Everyone changes all the time.

Ken Livingstone

The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.

Ken Livingstone

Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.

Ken Livingstone

If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.

Ken Livingstone

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

Ken Livingstone

I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.

Ken Livingstone

I would like all newspapers to become workers' co-operatives.

Ken Livingstone

My political beliefs are my moral, quasi-religious framework.

Ken Livingstone

I do the gardening.

Ken Livingstone

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

Ken Livingstone

I swim three times a week.

Ken Livingstone

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.

Ken Livingstone

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