Ken Livingstone Quotes
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World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.
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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 go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
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Jewish voters are not one homogenous block.
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My political beliefs are my moral, quasi-religious framework.
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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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Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.
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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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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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If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.
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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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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 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'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 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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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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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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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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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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Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for.
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I take a much more pragmatic view than many people on the Left about working with Neil Kinnock. Kinnock represents the best vehicle possible for achieving socialism now.