Ken Livingstone Quotes
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I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.
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My main income is from speaking.
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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 can't think of a more appalling contrast between this wedding beanfeast and what is happening in Ireland.
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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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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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Perhaps if they're not happy here they can go back to Iran and try their luck with ayatollahs, if they don't like the planning regime or my approach.
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Most politicians aren't allowed to express themselves any more.
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Thatcher was prepared to destroy the world rather than give in on something she believed in.
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Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.
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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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The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges.
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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 refuse not to have a sense of humour.
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This life is messy.
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I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.
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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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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.
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I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.
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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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Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.
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If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.
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I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
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The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.