Ken Livingstone Quotes

What a squalid and irresponsible little profession it is. Nothing prepares you for how bad Fleet Street really is until it craps on you from a great height.

But when reporters say to me I'm only doing this because it's my job... that's the same abdication of moral responsibility at the thin end of the wedge that in its most extreme and horrific version ends up with others being prepared to stand as a concentration camp guard.

a major milestone in London's recovery.

Here is a radical and reforming commissioner making major changes to the police who has many enemies in there, who really don't want to see those changes.

We believe that the fight against terrorism requires a broad consensus around its means and the involvement of all communities to isolate and defeat those who would use terror to divide us.

People say a lot of silly things during an election campaign, and then afterwards they have to work with the reality of what voters have done.

Under foreign occupation and denied a right to vote, denied the right to run your own affairs ... I suspect that if it had happened here in England we would have produced a lot of suicide bombers ourselves.

But I don't just denounce suicide bombers. I denounce those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy.

It is the first ever time we have closed Oxford Street to traffic. Today is about getting people into London. We want to make certain that shops make a real benefit out of this.

There's a fixed limit beyond which we wouldn't go, there's no guarantee we would automatically go up to that limit.

Pity. I always like sharing a stage with Jack. It makes me look even smarter.

I am proud to announce that London has successfully bid to host the Grand Depart of the Tour de France in July 2007.

Hosting the first stage of the legendary French cycle race will raise the profile of cycling in the capital, attract visitors and promote the capital as a venue for international sporting events.

This decision strikes at the heart of democracy. Elected politicians should only be able to be removed by the voters or for breaking the law.