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" My political beliefs are my moral, quasi-religious framework. "
Ken Livingstone
Political
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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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" 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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" My only regret is the media's obsession with the past. "
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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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" I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists. "
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" There isn't much about my life that's been particularly conventional. "
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" 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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" I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education. "
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" Most people wouldn't want to marry a politician. "
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" 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. "
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" World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy. "
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" Jewish voters are not one homogenous block. "
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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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" Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced. "
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" Thatcher was prepared to destroy the world rather than give in on something she believed in. "
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" 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. "
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" I grew up in a house with very few books. "
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House
" I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them. "
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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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" Well, I get on with people who believe in something. "
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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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" 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 swim three times a week. "
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" Well, I mean, I'm very much a pragmatic person. "
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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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