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" If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems. "
Ken Livingstone
Problems
Focus
You
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" I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues. "
Ken Livingstone
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" Press TV is one of the few TV channels anywhere in the West that fairly presents the Palestinian case. "
Ken Livingstone
Case
Press
Palestinian
" The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to. "
Ken Livingstone
Truth
Tax
Than
" I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights. "
Ken Livingstone
London
Around
Gay
" I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them. "
Ken Livingstone
Who
World
Awe
" I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics. "
Ken Livingstone
Politics
Loathe
Detest
" I never came into life with any favours or privileges. "
Ken Livingstone
Privileges
Came
Never
" 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. "
Ken Livingstone
Baby
Tomorrow
Sleep
" Jewish voters are not one homogenous block. "
Ken Livingstone
Jewish
Voters
Block
" Most people are not shocked that I am occasionally rude to journalists. They are probably amazed I don't punch one in the face. "
Ken Livingstone
Rude
People
Most
" I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. "
Ken Livingstone
Small Business
Business
Same
" I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues. "
Ken Livingstone
About
Who
Ugly
" Everyone changes all the time. "
Ken Livingstone
Everyone
Changes
Time
" There isn't much about my life that's been particularly conventional. "
Ken Livingstone
Much
Life
Been
" 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 don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister. "
Ken Livingstone
Enough
Been
Hard
" There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work. "
Ken Livingstone
Women
Law
Work
" I grew up in a house with very few books. "
Ken Livingstone
Few
Books
House
" 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. "
Ken Livingstone
Environment
Investment
Train
" 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
" This life is messy. "
Ken Livingstone
Messy
Life
" 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
" I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage. "
Ken Livingstone
Hollywood
Myself
Lose
" My only regret is the media's obsession with the past. "
Ken Livingstone
Regret
Obsession
Only
" I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999. "
Ken Livingstone
Authority
Exercise
Respect
" 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 refuse not to have a sense of humour. "
Ken Livingstone
Humour
Sense
Refuse
" 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
" My political beliefs are my moral, quasi-religious framework. "
Ken Livingstone
Political
Framework
Moral
" I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world. "
Ken Livingstone
Own
Politicians
Rest