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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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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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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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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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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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You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.
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My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.
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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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Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.
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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'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.
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Everyone changes all the time.
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I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT.
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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 have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
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If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It
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I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.
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The American agenda is sweeping everything before it, and although it's not perfect, the EU is better on environmental issues. It's a less rapacious form of capitalism.
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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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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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