Ken Livingstone Quotes
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Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.
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This life is messy.
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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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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 grew up in a house with very few books.
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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 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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If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.
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World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.
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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'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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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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If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.
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I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
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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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My political beliefs are my moral, quasi-religious framework.
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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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I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.
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I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
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Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.
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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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Psephology isn't a hate crime.
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I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.