QUOTES by Ken Livingstone
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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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I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.
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I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.
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I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.
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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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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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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 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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There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.
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My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.
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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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I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.
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World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.
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Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.
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Thatcher was prepared to destroy the world rather than give in on something she believed in.
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I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.
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I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.
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I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.
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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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If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.
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I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
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The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says.
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I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.
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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'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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I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.
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I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.
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