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" I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul. "

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" 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

Monsters

World

You

" The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says. "

" I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them. "

" Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high. "

" I have no interest in managing my financial affairs. "

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

Ken Livingstone

Think

People

" Most people wouldn't want to marry a politician. "

" 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? "

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

" My main income is from speaking. "

" I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists. "

Ken Livingstone

Israel

Against

" 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

Keep

Mistake

" I never came into life with any favours or privileges. "

" 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. "

" The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative. "

" I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think. "

Ken Livingstone

City

Think

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

" 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. "

" Psephology isn't a hate crime. "

Ken Livingstone

Hate

Crime

" 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. "

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

" The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them. "

" The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to. "

" Well, I mean, I'm very much a pragmatic person. "

" I've never declined to do an interview. "

" 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. "

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

" Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth. "

" Everyone changes all the time. "

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