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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.

Ken Livingstone

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Ken Livingstone
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 17
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Former Mayor Of London
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Kenneth Robert Livingstone
Kenneth Robert Ken Livingstone
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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 liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.
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You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.
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I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
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I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT.
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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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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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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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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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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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I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.
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