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" I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists. "
Ken Livingstone
Israel
Against
Am
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" Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced. "
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" Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. "
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" Everyone changes all the time. "
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" My main income is from speaking. "
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" I would like all newspapers to become workers' co-operatives. "
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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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" Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high. "
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Because
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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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" The civil service are risk averse. "
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Risk
" The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing about it, wouldn't they? "
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" I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues. "
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" Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. "
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" 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. "
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Best
Office
" I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage. "
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Hollywood
Myself
Lose
" When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself. "
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Myself
Seed
" 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. "
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Change
You
Long
" I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education. "
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Seeking
Tradition
Spent
" I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career. "
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Off
Always
Year
" I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister. "
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Enough
Been
Hard
" My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London. "
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Will
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London
" I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear. "
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Person
Occasionally
Emotional
" I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life. "
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Life
My Life
Sound
" My only regret is the media's obsession with the past. "
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Regret
Obsession
Only
" 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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City
Think
Up
" I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights. "
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London
Around
Gay
" 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. "
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Better
Sound
Voice
" Press TV is one of the few TV channels anywhere in the West that fairly presents the Palestinian case. "
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Press
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" Psephology isn't a hate crime. "
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