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I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

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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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When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay between the cleaner and the director general was a four-to-one ratio. I find that attractive.
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You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.
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I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT.
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I refuse not to have a sense of humour.
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I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
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Everyone changes all the time.
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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 have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
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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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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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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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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 think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.
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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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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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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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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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