Ken Livingstone Quotes
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As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted 14 years ago...
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Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.
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The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.
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I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.
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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.
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I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.
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One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.
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Most people wouldn't want to marry a politician.
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Everyone changes all the time.
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I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.
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I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.
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Only some ghastly dehumanised moron would want to get rid of the Routemaster.
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Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.
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Everyone is bisexual. Almost everyone has the sexual potential for anything.
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The next election will bring an influx of over 120 new MPs who will be overwhelmingly on the Left.
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There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.
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There isn't much about my life that's been particularly conventional.
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I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.
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My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.
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Well, I mean, I'm very much a pragmatic person.
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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?
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You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.
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Most politicians aren't allowed to express themselves any more.
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Some US journalist came up to me and said: 'How can you say this about President Bush?' Well, I think what I said then was quite mild. I actually think that Bush is the greatest threat to life on this planet that we've most probably ever seen. The policies he is initiating will doom us to extinction.