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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. "

Ken Livingstone

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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 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 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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" My political beliefs are my moral, quasi-religious framework. "

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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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