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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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Ken Livingstone
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 17
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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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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 only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
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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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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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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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I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
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I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.
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My view is rather than just rage at your impotence you find the best way of achieving as much as you can within whatever constraints there are. It's not the world I would have created but you do what you can within it.
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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 liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.
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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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I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
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