English - Politician | June 17, 1945 -
I grew up in a house with very few books.
Ken Livingstone
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I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.
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Press TV is one of the few TV channels anywhere in the West that fairly presents the Palestinian case.
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I never came into life with any favours or privileges.
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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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If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.
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I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.
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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 would like all newspapers to become workers' co-operatives.
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Give me the whole world to run and then I'll be happy. If tomorrow I was told I had to sort out the whole world's problems I'd sleep like a baby.
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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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I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.
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