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" I actually think the civil service, who are the malignancy at the heart of public life, have consciously prevented, talked ministers out of, made it difficult regulatory-wise, to allow more pressure on alternative energy sources to grow. "

Ken Livingstone

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" If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war. "

" I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career. "

" I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life. "

" I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people. "

" I would like all newspapers to become workers' co-operatives. "

" Well, I get on with people who believe in something. "

" I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability. "

" I refuse not to have a sense of humour. "

" The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative. "

" 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. "

" Everyone changes all the time. "

" My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London. "

" There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work. "

" I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics. "

" 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. "

" All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy? "

" I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul. "

" I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law. "

" I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them. "

" Well, I mean, I'm very much a pragmatic person. "

" I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life. "

" I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies. "

" Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced. "

" 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. "

" I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. "

" I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world. "

" Politics is not a healthy lifestyle. "