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I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

Ken Livingstone

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Ken Livingstone
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 17
Autobiographer
Broadcaster
Former Mayor Of London
Politician
Kenneth Robert Livingstone
Kenneth Robert Ken Livingstone
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I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
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I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.
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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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One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.
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Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for. I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people. The Tories take Jewish London for granted. I will not.
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I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
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What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.
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I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.
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The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.
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I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.
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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.
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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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Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.
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I take a much more pragmatic view than many people on the Left about working with Neil Kinnock. Kinnock represents the best vehicle possible for achieving socialism now.
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When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible.
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I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.
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My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.
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