Ken Livingstone Country Quotations

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

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.

It really is remarkable that the richest country in the world topped the congestion charge non-payers' league over the last six months.

Today the Israeli government continues seizures of Palestinian land for settlements, military incursions into surrounding countries and denial of the right of Palestinians expelled by terror to return. Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, is a war criminal who should be in prison, not in office. Israel's own Kahan commission found that Sharon shared responsibility for the Sabra and Shatila massacres.

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.