Ken Livingstone Quotes

Am I a liberal or conservative? I'm neither. Like most Americans, I find politics very frustrating. Like most Americans, I'd like to hear from politicians the facts. That is what drives me.

As Americans, we have to be honest and ask ourselves a question: Do we really want to tone down politics? I always hear a resounding 'yes,' and I think most people mean that genuinely. But do our practices ever change?

I want to do something to change the mistrust towards politicians.

Unlike the general public, I rather like most politicians.

I don't believe there are heroes or saviours in politics.

I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.

Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.

The problem with modern politics is everybody is doing sound bite stuff. In my stump speech, I give 20 minutes on why I think we're off track. And I think people do really want to engage in a serious high-level discussion on how to get the country back on track because people care about their own country.

Politicians are no different than the rest of the public.

There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.

Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently and for the same reason.

I have no love for American politics..

Especially among journalists, politics is not a pursuit that's held in high esteem. We tend to be cynical about it - but I actually believe in democracy.

I've got genuine political reasons for not voting for David Cameron. He's got a tiny little mouth.

Politics for me is when I feel a personal engagement between people: I don't trust politicians.

This world is always fed up with politicians.

To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime.

In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.

I follow politics in a big way, and always have since I was a kid. I've got opinions, but they're opinions on both sides - not just anti-Republican, which is a real popular thing for a rap artist to do. If you dis Republicans, nobody will get mad. I think the two-party system sucks. It's absolutely ignorant.

I love the Upper West Side. I walk down the street all the time and am stopped by Democrats. I don't think they've ever actually met a Republican before.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.