There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

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

If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.

All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?

Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.

Everyone changes all the time.

I actually think the civil service, who are the malignancy at the heart of public life, have consciously prevented, talked ministers out of, made it difficult regulatory-wise, to allow more pressure on alternative energy sources to grow.

I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.

I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.

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.

I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.

I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.

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

I can't understand why anyone would want to live the life of a politician if you can't say pretty much what you think. You are not in it for the money: there's unremitting pressure on your life, you give up so much of your privacy. It can only be because of the things you want to do and the things you want to say.

I could not cherish London and not value Jewish London. The contribution of Jews to London is immense - politically, economically, culturally, intellectually, philanthropically, artistically.

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

I do the gardening.

I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.

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.

I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

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

I grew up in a house with very few books.

I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

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.

I never came into life with any favours or privileges.

I refuse not to have a sense of humour.

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.

I swim three times a week.

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

I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.

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.

I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.

I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.

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

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.

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

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.

I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people.

I've never declined to do an interview.

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.

If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.

If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.

Jewish voters are not one homogenous block.

Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.