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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.

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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When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates, you have to think, 'You are a complete idiot.'
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I refuse not to have a sense of humour.
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The American agenda is sweeping everything before it, and although it's not perfect, the EU is better on environmental issues. It's a less rapacious form of capitalism.
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When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible.
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What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.
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I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
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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 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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I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.
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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 don't just denounce suicide bombers. I denounce those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy.
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I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.
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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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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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You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.
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I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.
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I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
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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 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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