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" I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage. "
Ken Livingstone
Hollywood
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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. "
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" I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law. "
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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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" This life is messy. "
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" Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding. "
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" I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive. "
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" 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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" Most politicians aren't allowed to express themselves any more. "
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" If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it. "
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" The market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn't protect the environment unless it's regulated, it doesn't train your workforce unless it's regulated, and it doesn't give you the long-term investment you want. "
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Train
" I do the gardening. "
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" I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics. "
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Loathe
Detest
" I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world. "
Ken Livingstone
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" Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. "
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" Well, I mean, I'm very much a pragmatic person. "
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" My only regret is the media's obsession with the past. "
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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. "
Ken Livingstone
City
Think
Up
" The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says. "
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You
Best
Democracy
" I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life. "
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Life
My Life
Sound
" The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations. "
Ken Livingstone
Monsters
World
You
" 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. "
Ken Livingstone
Baby
Tomorrow
Sleep
" I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies. "
Ken Livingstone
Lies
Read
Incredible
" Jewish voters are not one homogenous block. "
Ken Livingstone
Jewish
Voters
Block
" I would like all newspapers to become workers' co-operatives. "
Ken Livingstone
Workers
Newspapers
Would
" I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied. "
Ken Livingstone
Think
Career
Lie
" 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. "
Ken Livingstone
Judgement
Best
Office
" I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people. "
Ken Livingstone
People
Two People
Media
" 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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Respect
" 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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" World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy. "
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People
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