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" I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people. "
Ken Livingstone
People
Two People
Media
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" I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage. "
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" I have no interest in managing my financial affairs. "
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" Jewish voters are not one homogenous block. "
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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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" If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war. "
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" Press TV is one of the few TV channels anywhere in the West that fairly presents the Palestinian case. "
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" 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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" 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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" If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it. "
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" The civil service are risk averse. "
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" I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world. "
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" I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess. "
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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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Four
Global
Global Warming
" Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. "
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London
Job
Better
" Well, I mean, I'm very much a pragmatic person. "
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Well
Mean
" I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability. "
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Best
Office
" 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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Always
Year
" I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive. "
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I Can
Know
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" I never came into life with any favours or privileges. "
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Came
Never
" Thatcher was prepared to destroy the world rather than give in on something she believed in. "
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She
Give
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" I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies. "
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Read
Incredible
" I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law. "
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Rule
Thought
" I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises. "
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People
" I grew up in a house with very few books. "
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Few
Books
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" My only regret is the media's obsession with the past. "
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Obsession
Only
" 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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" I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists. "
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Am
" Most people wouldn't want to marry a politician. "
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Most
" 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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