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" There isn't much about my life that's been particularly conventional. "
Ken Livingstone
Much
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" Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it. "
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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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" Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced. "
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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'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. "
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" Jewish voters are not one homogenous block. "
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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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" If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems. "
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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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" The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative. "
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" Well, I get on with people who believe in something. "
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" I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education. "
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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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" I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied. "
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