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" Psephology isn't a hate crime. "
Ken Livingstone
Hate
Crime
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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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" Press TV is one of the few TV channels anywhere in the West that fairly presents the Palestinian case. "
Ken Livingstone
Case
Press
Palestinian
" There isn't much about my life that's been particularly conventional. "
Ken Livingstone
Much
Life
Been
" Jewish voters are not one homogenous block. "
Ken Livingstone
Jewish
Voters
Block
" I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career. "
Ken Livingstone
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Always
Year
" 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. "
Ken Livingstone
Like
Strength
Who
" I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights. "
Ken Livingstone
London
Around
Gay
" Politics is not a healthy lifestyle. "
Ken Livingstone
Politics
Lifestyle
Healthy
" 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. "
Ken Livingstone
Money
Wife
Three
" The civil service are risk averse. "
Ken Livingstone
Civil
Service
Risk
" I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. "
Ken Livingstone
Small Business
Business
Same
" Well, I get on with people who believe in something. "
Ken Livingstone
Believe
Something
People
" Thatcher was prepared to destroy the world rather than give in on something she believed in. "
Ken Livingstone
She
Give
Prepared
" Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding. "
Ken Livingstone
Kids
Wedding
Parents
" I never came into life with any favours or privileges. "
Ken Livingstone
Privileges
Came
Never
" I've never declined to do an interview. "
Ken Livingstone
Never
Declined
Interview
" I have no interest in managing my financial affairs. "
Ken Livingstone
Interest
Financial
Affairs
" I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage. "
Ken Livingstone
Hollywood
Myself
Lose
" If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems. "
Ken Livingstone
Problems
Focus
You
" My main income is from speaking. "
Ken Livingstone
Speaking
Main
Income
" 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. "
Ken Livingstone
Pressure
Think
You
" I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education. "
Ken Livingstone
Seeking
Tradition
Spent
" I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics. "
Ken Livingstone
Politics
Loathe
Detest
" 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. "
Ken Livingstone
Partnership
London
Gay
" I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive. "
Ken Livingstone
I Can
Know
People
" I grew up in a house with very few books. "
Ken Livingstone
Few
Books
House
" I refuse not to have a sense of humour. "
Ken Livingstone
Humour
Sense
Refuse
" 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? "
Ken Livingstone
Keep
Mistake
Me
" World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy. "
Ken Livingstone
World
People
More
" If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it. "
Ken Livingstone
Abolish
Voting
Changed