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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.

Ken Livingstone

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Ken Livingstone
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 17
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If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
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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 go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
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We look to the left and to the right And we need help but nobody's in sight Where is the man that we all need Tell him he's to come and rescue me.
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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 liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.
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I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.
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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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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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I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.
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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 have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
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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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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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You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.
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I refuse not to have a sense of humour.
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I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.
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