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Ken Livingstone

Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born 17 June 1945) is an English politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as Mayor of London from the creation of the office in 2000 until 2008. He also served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent East from 1987 to 2001. A suspended member of the Labour Party, he was on the party's hard left, ideologically identifying as a democratic socialist.

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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.

Differences, Director, Leader, Ratio, Years

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.

Government, Nazism, Palestinian, People, Sought

I never came into life with any favours or privileges.

Came, Favour, Favours, Life, Privilege, Privileges

I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.

Cities, City, Normal, School, Think, Thinking

You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.

Britain, Lose, Loses, Power, Public

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

Bars, Brothels, London, Mps, Problem, Wine

I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.

Lie, Lying, Mistake, Public, Think, Thinking

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

Crazy, Everyday, Hitler, People, Wide

I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.

Alive, Dead, Met, Mets, People

Well, on lots of small things we could have done better, but on all the big things we called it right. You should make less mistakes as you get older, and 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.

1971, Done, Lots, Making, Mistake, Should

My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.

Administration, Black, Community, Issues, Tackle

I've never declined to do an interview.

Declined, Interview, Interviews

Everyone is bisexual. Almost everyone has the sexual potential for anything.

Bisexual, Everyone, Potential, Sexual

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

Average, Careers, Workaholic, Year, Years

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

Country, Deal, Interested, Rights, World

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.

Lied, Life, Needs, Public Life, See, Truth

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

Dave, Referendum, Referendums, War

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

Blew, Express, Mail, Noses, Trying, Warfare

I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.

Everybody, Exactly, Position, Same, Small, Small Business

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.

Clever, Kid, Kids, Like, Men, Prowess

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