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I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.

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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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 go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
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I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.
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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 can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.
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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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I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT.
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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 refuse not to have a sense of humour.
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I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.
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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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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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