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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.

Ken Livingstone

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Ken Livingstone
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 17
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I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
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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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I don't just denounce suicide bombers. I denounce those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy.
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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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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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It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.
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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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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've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT.
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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.
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