Ken Livingston Quotations

No one likes each other at the top of politics. Most of them can't stand each other; but you are locked into a situation where you have to deliver something.

I would have thought that for the organizers of the Tour de France, the benefit of coming to London is having famous sites in the background as the cyclists whiz past.

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,

I actually think it's what he represents they don't want to see depicted, because in that square one Nelson signifies the birth of the British empire and 100 years of global dominance, ... Nelson Mandela would signify the peaceful transition to a multiracial and multicultural world, and I would be proud to have that in London.

London's communities will continue to stand together in condemnation of anyone who attacks the city,

We hope this agreement will foster an environment in which London and Beijing can become closer business partners and develop a deeper cultural understanding through the exchange of tourists and students.

Three members of a body that no one has ever elected should not be allowed to overturn the votes of millions of Londoners.

Those police were actually breaking the law as they took those banners away. We are not having any of that.

Everything that we had planned for this day we knew would come worked like clockwork.

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,

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

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.

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.

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

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.