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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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Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.
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I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.
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My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.
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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 have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
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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 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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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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Just because I am critical of the coalition doesn't mean I am anti-English. I am just anti-scumbags.
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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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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?
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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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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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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 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.
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I think George Bush is the most corrupt American president since Harding in the Twenties. He is not the legitimate president. This really is a completely unsupportable government and I look forward to it being overthrown as much as I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being overthrown.
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Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.
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When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates, you have to think, 'You are a complete idiot.'
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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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I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.
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