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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.'

Ken Livingstone

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Ken Livingstone
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 17
Autobiographer
Broadcaster
Former Mayor Of London
Politician
Kenneth Robert Livingstone
Kenneth Robert Ken Livingstone
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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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You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.
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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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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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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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[Pigeons are] rats with wings.
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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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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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