Ken Livingstone Quotes
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I actually think the civil service, who are the malignancy at the heart of public life, have consciously prevented, talked ministers out of, made it difficult regulatory-wise, to allow more pressure on alternative energy sources to grow.
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The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.
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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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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 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'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 swim three times a week.
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My only regret is the media's obsession with the past.
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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 refuse not to have a sense of humour.
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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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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'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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My main income is from speaking.
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I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.
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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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When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.
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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.
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Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.
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Most politicians aren't allowed to express themselves any more.
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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.