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I refuse not to have a sense of humour.

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 think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.
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I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.
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I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.
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The American agenda is sweeping everything before it, and although it's not perfect, the EU is better on environmental issues. It's a less rapacious form of capitalism.
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Everyone changes all the time.
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I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers.
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There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough.
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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'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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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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I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT.
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It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.
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Just because I am critical of the coalition doesn't mean I am anti-English. I am just anti-scumbags.
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If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It
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To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live
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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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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 have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
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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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