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" 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. "

Ken Livingstone

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Ken Livingstone

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People

" Well, I get on with people who believe in something. "

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" I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage. "

" Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it. "

" If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war. "

" 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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" 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. "

" I could not cherish London and not value Jewish London. The contribution of Jews to London is immense - politically, economically, culturally, intellectually, philanthropically, artistically. "

" All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy? "

" I grew up in a house with very few books. "

" 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

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Mistake

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

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

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

" I refuse not to have a sense of humour. "

" Everyone changes all the time. "

" 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

Strength

Who

" There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work. "