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" 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
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" There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" This life is messy. "
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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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" 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. "
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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 go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights. "
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" I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life. "
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Sound
" My political beliefs are my moral, quasi-religious framework. "
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" My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London. "
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" I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies. "
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" Well, I mean, I'm very much a pragmatic person. "
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Well
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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've never declined to do an interview. "
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Declined
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" The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative. "
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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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" I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career. "
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Year
" I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists. "
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Against
Am
" Most politicians aren't allowed to express themselves any more. "
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Most
More
" I would like all newspapers to become workers' co-operatives. "
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" 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. "
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" Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high. "
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" The civil service are risk averse. "
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