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When reporters say to me I'm only doing this because it's my job... that's the same abdication of moral responsibility at the thin end of the wedge that in its most extreme and horrific version ends up with others being prepared to stand as a concentration camp guard.
Ken Livingstone -
I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.
Ken Livingstone
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If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.
Ken Livingstone -
My political beliefs are my moral, quasi-religious framework.
Ken Livingstone -
Jewish voters are not one homogenous block.
Ken Livingstone -
I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.
Ken Livingstone -
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.
Ken Livingstone -
The market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn't protect the environment unless it's regulated, it doesn't train your workforce unless it's regulated, and it doesn't give you the long-term investment you want.
Ken Livingstone
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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.
Ken Livingstone -
This life is messy.
Ken Livingstone -
I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it. But you pay corporation tax. If you're then taking it out and spending it on yourself, you have to pay more.
Ken Livingstone -
I refuse not to have a sense of humour.
Ken Livingstone -
I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
Ken Livingstone -
Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.
Ken Livingstone
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I can't think of a more appalling contrast between this wedding beanfeast and what is happening in Ireland.
Ken Livingstone -
My main income is from speaking.
Ken Livingstone -
I'm not in favour of the army, I'm in favour of replacing it with armed workers' brigades to defend the factories.
Ken Livingstone -
I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
Ken Livingstone -
If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.
Ken Livingstone -
When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.
Ken Livingstone
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Press TV is one of the few TV channels anywhere in the West that fairly presents the Palestinian case.
Ken Livingstone -
Most people are not shocked that I am occasionally rude to journalists. They are probably amazed I don't punch one in the face.
Ken Livingstone -
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.
Ken Livingstone -
My only regret is the media's obsession with the past.
Ken Livingstone