Ken Livingstone Quotes
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I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.
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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 loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
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Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.
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I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.
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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 have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
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I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
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World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.
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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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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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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 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 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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Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for.
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I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.
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Well, I get on with people who believe in something.
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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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Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.
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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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I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.
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I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.
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I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.