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" 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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" 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? "

Ken Livingstone

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" When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself. "

" Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. "

" There isn't much about my life that's been particularly conventional. "

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

" Everyone changes all the time. "

" I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them. "

" I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it. But you pay corporation tax. If you're then taking it out and spending it on yourself, you have to pay more. "

" I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world. "

" Most people wouldn't want to marry a politician. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. "

" The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them. "

" If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it. "

" 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. "

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

" Thatcher was prepared to destroy the world rather than give in on something she believed in. "

" I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law. "

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

" I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied. "

" I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics. "

" I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear. "

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

" The civil service are risk averse. "

" 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. "

" Press TV is one of the few TV channels anywhere in the West that fairly presents the Palestinian case. "

" I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think. "

Ken Livingstone

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" Most politicians aren't allowed to express themselves any more. "

Ken Livingstone

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