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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
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" Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. "
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" I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law. "
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Rule
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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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Stage
Here
" 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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" Well, I get on with people who believe in something. "
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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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Always
Year
" There isn't much about my life that's been particularly conventional. "
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Life
Been
" I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. "
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" Politics is not a healthy lifestyle. "
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Lifestyle
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" This life is messy. "
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Life
" Most people wouldn't want to marry a politician. "
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Most
" Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth. "
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Done
Intention
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" My main income is from speaking. "
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Speaking
Main
Income
" If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems. "
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Problems
Focus
You
" 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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Baby
Tomorrow
Sleep
" I refuse not to have a sense of humour. "
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Humour
Sense
Refuse
" Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding. "
Ken Livingstone
Kids
Wedding
Parents
" The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to. "
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Truth
Tax
Than
" 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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Money
Wife
Three
" I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty. "
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Going
Need
Achieve
" What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us? "
Ken Livingstone
Change
Climate Change
Down
" Well, I mean, I'm very much a pragmatic person. "
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Much
Well
Mean
" The civil service are risk averse. "
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Civil
Service
Risk
" I swim three times a week. "
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Week
Times
" Everyone changes all the time. "
Ken Livingstone
Everyone
Changes
Time
" I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied. "
Ken Livingstone
Think
Career
Lie
" 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
" 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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Three
Control
Find
" 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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Monsters
World
You
" 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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Mistake
Me