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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.

Ken Livingstone

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Ken Livingstone
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 17
Autobiographer
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Former Mayor Of London
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Kenneth Robert Livingstone
Kenneth Robert Ken Livingstone
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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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I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
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My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.
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I refuse not to have a sense of humour.
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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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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 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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I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.
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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 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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I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT.
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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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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 have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
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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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Everyone changes all the time.
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