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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My main income is from speaking.
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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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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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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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The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges.
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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'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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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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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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Jewish voters are not one homogenous block.
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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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I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.
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Thatcher was prepared to destroy the world rather than give in on something she believed in.
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This life is messy.
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Most politicians aren't allowed to express themselves any more.
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I refuse not to have a sense of humour.
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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 kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.
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Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.
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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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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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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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When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.