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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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We look to the left and to the right And we need help but nobody's in sight Where is the man that we all need Tell him he's to come and rescue me.
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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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Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for. I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people. The Tories take Jewish London for granted. I will not.
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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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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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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 have no interest in managing my financial affairs.
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I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
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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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If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It
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The market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn't protect the environment unless it's regulated, it doesn't train your workforce unless it's regulated, and it doesn't give you the long-term investment you want.
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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 go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
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Everyone changes all the time.
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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 can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.
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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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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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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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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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