185 Quotes by Ken Livingstone

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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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    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.

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

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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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