Ken Livingstone Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.”
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“I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.”
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“I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.”
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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've never declined to do an interview.”
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“My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.”
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“I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.”
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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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“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 spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.”
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“Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth.”
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“I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people.”
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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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“What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?”
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“I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I go. I'm paying the normal rate of tax on the money I take out for myself.”
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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 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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“You can't expect to work for the Daily Mail group and have the rest of society treat with you respect as a useful member of society, because you are not.”
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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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“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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“When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates you have to think, you are a complete idiot.”
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“To avoid manufactured misunderstandings, the policies of Israeli governments are not analogous to Nazism. They do not aim at the systematic extermination of the Palestinian people, in the way Nazism sought the annihilation of the Jews.”
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“Today the Israeli government continues seizures of Palestinian land for settlements, military incursions into surrounding countries and denial of the right of Palestinians expelled by terror to return. Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, is a war criminal who should be in prison, not in office. Israel's own Kahan commission found that Sharon shared responsibility for the Sabra and Shatila massacres.”
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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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