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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
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I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
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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 mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it. But you pay corporation tax. If you're then taking it out and spending it on yourself, you have to pay more.
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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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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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[Pigeons are] rats with wings.
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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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Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.
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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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I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
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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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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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Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.
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I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.
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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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My view is rather than just rage at your impotence you find the best way of achieving as much as you can within whatever constraints there are. It's not the world I would have created but you do what you can within it.
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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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