Ken Livingstone Quotes
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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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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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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 can't think of a more appalling contrast between this wedding beanfeast and what is happening in Ireland.
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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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My main income is from speaking.
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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'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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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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This life is messy.
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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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Thatcher was prepared to destroy the world rather than give in on something she believed in.
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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'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.
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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 have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.
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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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When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.
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Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.
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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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I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.
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Most politicians aren't allowed to express themselves any more.
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Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.
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Nothing could have been greater than the pride of serving this city. I do not believe - I am sure I speak for my colleagues on all sides - nothing else that happens to us in our lives will be as rewarding and fulfilling as the years that we have spent in this building.