185 Quotes by Ken Livingstone

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

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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.

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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.

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    One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.

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    When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.

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