Ken Livingstone Quotes
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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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I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.
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I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.
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Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for.
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I would like all newspapers to become workers' co-operatives.
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I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.
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Psephology isn't a hate crime.
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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.
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The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.
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I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.
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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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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 can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.
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You cannot just have a socialist revolution in Norwood and nowhere else.
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I've never declined to do an interview.
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Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth.
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I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.
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When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay between the cleaner and the director general was a four-to-one ratio. I find that attractive.
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I do the gardening.