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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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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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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've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT.
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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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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'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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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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When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay between the cleaner and the director general was a four-to-one ratio. I find that attractive.
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I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.
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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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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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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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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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The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.
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I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.
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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 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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I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.
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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 grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.
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