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" Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding. "
Ken Livingstone
Kids
Wedding
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" I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies. "
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" Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. "
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" I do the gardening. "
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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 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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" 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 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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" If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems. "
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" I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. "
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" I never came into life with any favours or privileges. "
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" I refuse not to have a sense of humour. "
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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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" Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high. "
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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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" I've never declined to do an interview. "
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" I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues. "
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" My only regret is the media's obsession with the past. "
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" I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists. "
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" I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life. "
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" Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced. "
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" I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics. "
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" Well, I mean, I'm very much a pragmatic person. "
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" 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. "
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" The civil service are risk averse. "
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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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" World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy. "
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" I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it. But you pay corporation tax. If you're then taking it out and spending it on yourself, you have to pay more. "
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" Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for. "
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