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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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I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.
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You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.
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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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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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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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I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
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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 liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.
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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 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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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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