Ken Livingstone Quotes
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I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
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World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.
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Most people are not shocked that I am occasionally rude to journalists. They are probably amazed I don't punch one in the face.
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I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
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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.
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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.
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Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.
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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 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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I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.
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If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.
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I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
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I'm not in favour of the army, I'm in favour of replacing it with armed workers' brigades to defend the factories.
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I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I go. I'm paying the normal rate of tax on the money I take out for myself.
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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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If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
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I feel a degree of regret that Marshall did not push on and say 'Abolish the GLC', because I think it would be a major saving and would have released massive resources for more productive use.
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I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.
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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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Well, I get on with people who believe in something.
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I grew up in a house with very few books.
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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 have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.
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Psephology isn't a hate crime.