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" I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises. "
Ken Livingstone
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" My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London. "
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" Well, I get on with people who believe in something. "
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" I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law. "
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" 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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" If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it. "
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" If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war. "
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" I have no interest in managing my financial affairs. "
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" Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. "
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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. "
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" I refuse not to have a sense of humour. "
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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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" Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it. "
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Global
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" When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay between the cleaner and the director general was a four-to-one ratio. I find that attractive. "
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Three
Control
Find
" I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear. "
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Emotional
" I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies. "
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Read
Incredible
" Most politicians aren't allowed to express themselves any more. "
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" I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied. "
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Career
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" 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. "
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World
You
" The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative. "
Ken Livingstone
Conservative
Background
Culture
" My main income is from speaking. "
Ken Livingstone
Speaking
Main
Income
" I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them. "
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Who
World
Awe
" This life is messy. "
Ken Livingstone
Messy
Life
" I swim three times a week. "
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Week
Times
" 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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Three
" Press TV is one of the few TV channels anywhere in the West that fairly presents the Palestinian case. "
Ken Livingstone
Case
Press
Palestinian
" Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced. "
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Been
Budget
" I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists. "
Ken Livingstone
Israel
Against
Am
" I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage. "
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Hollywood
Myself
Lose
" Most people are not shocked that I am occasionally rude to journalists. They are probably amazed I don't punch one in the face. "
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Rude
People
Most
" I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty. "
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Need
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