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" Most people wouldn't want to marry a politician. "
Ken Livingstone
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" Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high. "
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" I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here. "
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" Well, I get on with people who believe in something. "
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" Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced. "
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" I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights. "
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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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" Psephology isn't a hate crime. "
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" I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education. "
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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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" Press TV is one of the few TV channels anywhere in the West that fairly presents the Palestinian case. "
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" My political beliefs are my moral, quasi-religious framework. "
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" I refuse not to have a sense of humour. "
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" I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life. "
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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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City
Think
Up
" There isn't much about my life that's been particularly conventional. "
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Much
Life
Been
" I have no interest in managing my financial affairs. "
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Affairs
" 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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Politicians
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" I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister. "
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Been
Hard
" 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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" I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues. "
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Who
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" Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. "
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Who
Anybody
" I can't understand why anyone would want to live the life of a politician if you can't say pretty much what you think. You are not in it for the money: there's unremitting pressure on your life, you give up so much of your privacy. It can only be because of the things you want to do and the things you want to say. "
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" All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy? "
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" Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding. "
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Parents
" I grew up in a house with very few books. "
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