Ken Livingstone Quotes
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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.
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The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges.
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I can't understand why anyone would want to live the life of a politician if you can't say pretty much what you think. You are not in it for the money: there's unremitting pressure on your life, you give up so much of your privacy. It can only be because of the things you want to do and the things you want to say.
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I swim three times a week.
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My only regret is the media's obsession with the past.
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You can't expect to work for the Daily Mail group and have the rest of society treat with you respect as a useful member of society, because you are not.
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I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people.
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My main income is from speaking.
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Give me the whole world to run and then I'll be happy. If tomorrow I was told I had to sort out the whole world's problems I'd sleep like a baby.
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I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.
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I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty.
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If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.
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I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.
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In this city 300 languages are spoken and the people that speak them live side by side in harmony. This city typifies what I believe is the future of the human race and a future where we grow together and we share and we learn from each other.
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I refuse not to have a sense of humour.
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It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.
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When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.
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The American agenda is sweeping everything before it, and although it's not perfect, the EU is better on environmental issues. It's a less rapacious form of capitalism.
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I just long for the day I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lampposts and that they've got a proper government that represents the people of Saudi Arabia.
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I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.
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This life is messy.
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The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says.
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He asked to see me again. I think he wants me for my body.
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Thatcher was prepared to destroy the world rather than give in on something she believed in.