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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.

Ken Livingstone

Running, Country, Monsters

"Preview: Ken Livingstone: 'The world is run by monsters'". Interview with Jemima Khan, www.newstatesman.com. February 8, 2012.

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If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It

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Democracies Have, Political, Voting

Ken Livingstone (2011). “You Can't Say That: Memoirs”, p.49, Faber & Faber

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World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.

Ken Livingstone

Crazy, People, Everyday

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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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Power, Worst Nightmares, People

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The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster.

Ken Livingstone

Wine, Mps, Bars

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I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.

Ken Livingstone

Real, Thinking, Issues

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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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War, Years, People

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Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you

Ken Livingstone

People, Politics, Waste

"The Guardian profile: Ken Livingstone" by Kevin Maguire, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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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.

Ken Livingstone

Gay, Years, Wings

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I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

Ken Livingstone

Lying, Incredibles, Newspapers

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If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare.

Ken Livingstone

Trying, Warfare, Noses

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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

Ken Livingstone

Quality, Climate, Way

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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.

Ken Livingstone

Voice, Sound, Prime

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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.

Ken Livingstone

Groups, Daily Mail, Treats

"Livingstone Fails to Get Disrepute Charge Dropped". www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2005.

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I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty.

Ken Livingstone

Views, Order, Needs

"Ken Livingstone: 'It's an autobiography, not porn'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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I think George Bush is the most corrupt American president since Harding in the Twenties. He is not the legitimate president. This really is a completely unsupportable government and I look forward to it being overthrown as much as I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being overthrown.

Ken Livingstone

Thinking, Government, President

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I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.

Ken Livingstone

Country, Rights, World

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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.

Ken Livingstone

Gay, Rights, London

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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.

Ken Livingstone

Government, People, Nazism

"This is about Israel, not anti-semitism" by Ken Livingstone, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2005.

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Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for. I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people. The Tories take Jewish London for granted. I will not.

Ken Livingstone

Ethnicity, People

"Ken Livingstone tells Jewish Chronicle of his contrition over leaked remarks" by Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.

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Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

Ken Livingstone

House, Needs, Helping

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The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges.

Ken Livingstone

Judging, World, British

The Daily Telegraph, May 17, 1986.

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I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.

Ken Livingstone

Israel, Zionist

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My view is rather than just rage at your impotence you find the best way of achieving as much as you can within whatever constraints there are. It's not the world I would have created but you do what you can within it.

Ken Livingstone

Views, World, Way

"Ken Livingstone Interviewed: Boris, The Other Boris, Music, Politics & London". Interview with Luke Turner, thequietus.com. September 23, 2010.

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Boris [Johnson] and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum].

Ken Livingstone

War, Referendums, Dave

Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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Born: June 17, 1945
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