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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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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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Well, on lots of small things we could have done better, but on all the big things we called it right. You should make less mistakes as you get older, and 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.
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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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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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Just because I am critical of the coalition doesn't mean I am anti-English. I am just anti-scumbags.
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I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
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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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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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I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.
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Everyone changes all the time.
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I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.
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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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