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" If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it. "
Ken Livingstone
Abolish
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" Well, I get on with people who believe in something. "
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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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" My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London. "
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" I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues. "
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" Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. "
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" Jewish voters are not one homogenous block. "
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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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" 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 spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education. "
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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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