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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.

Ken Livingstone

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Ken Livingstone
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 17
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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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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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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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I don't just denounce suicide bombers. I denounce those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy.
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Everyone changes all the time.
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I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
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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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My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.
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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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When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible.
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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've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT.
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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 loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
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