English - Politician | June 17, 1945 -
I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.
Ken Livingstone
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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 don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.
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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'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.
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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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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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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 refuse not to have a sense of humour.
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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 it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.
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Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.
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