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" I have no interest in managing my financial affairs. "
Ken Livingstone
Interest
Financial
Affairs
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" I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises. "
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" 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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" My only regret is the media's obsession with the past. "
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" 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. "
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" 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? "
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America
Achieve
Now
" 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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Environment
Investment
Train
" I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law. "
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Rule Of Law
Rule
Thought
" Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced. "
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Prepared
Been
Budget
" The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative. "
Ken Livingstone
Conservative
Background
Culture
" 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
" I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues. "
Ken Livingstone
Trivia
Who
Think
" 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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Like
Strength
Who
" I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career. "
Ken Livingstone
Off
Always
Year
" 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. "
Ken Livingstone
Done
Intention
Study
" 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've never declined to do an interview. "
Ken Livingstone
Never
Declined
Interview
" When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself. "
Ken Livingstone
Argue
Myself
Seed
" If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war. "
Ken Livingstone
War
Women
Vote
" 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
Out
Energy
Heart
" 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. "
Ken Livingstone
Change
You
Long
" If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it. "
Ken Livingstone
Abolish
Voting
Changed
" I can't understand why anyone would want to live the life of a politician if you can't say pretty much what you think. You are not in it for the money: there's unremitting pressure on your life, you give up so much of your privacy. It can only be because of the things you want to do and the things you want to say. "
Ken Livingstone
Pressure
Think
You
" I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists. "
Ken Livingstone
Israel
Against
Am
" Jewish voters are not one homogenous block. "
Ken Livingstone
Jewish
Voters
Block
" I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. "
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Small Business
Business
Same
" I refuse not to have a sense of humour. "
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Humour
Sense
Refuse
" 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 have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life. "
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Life
My Life
Sound
" I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive. "
Ken Livingstone
I Can
Know
People