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" What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us? "

Ken Livingstone

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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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" I've never declined to do an interview. "

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" I never came into life with any favours or privileges. "

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" I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights. "

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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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" 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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" The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says. "

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" I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive. "

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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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" My political beliefs are my moral, quasi-religious framework. "

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" I would like all newspapers to become workers' co-operatives. "

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" My main income is from speaking. "

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" Psephology isn't a hate crime. "

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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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" 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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" I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. "

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" I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul. "

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