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" I swim three times a week. "

Ken Livingstone

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" I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to. "

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

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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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" I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises. "

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" I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies. "

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