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I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT.
If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone.
I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.
Thatcher was prepared to destroy the world rather than give in on something she believed in.
Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.
Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.
When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.
My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.
The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges.
I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.
Just because I am critical of the coalition doesn't mean I am anti-English. I am just anti-scumbags.
Press TV is one of the few TV channels anywhere in the West that fairly presents the Palestinian case.
I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.
If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare.
I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.
If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.
I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.
I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.
Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you
The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster.
There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.
I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.
I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.
Ed Miliband doesn't give a damn about what he looks like, how he dresses. He came into politics to change society.
To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live
When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates, you have to think, 'You are a complete idiot.'
I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers.
I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.
One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.
I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.
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.
The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear.
Boris [Johnson] and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum].
The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says.
Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.
The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.
Most people are not shocked that I am occasionally rude to journalists. They are probably amazed I don't punch one in the face.
It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.
I feel like Galileo going before the Inquisition to explain that the Sun doesn't revolve around the Earth. I hope I have more success.
I don't just denounce suicide bombers. I denounce those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy.
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.
The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing about it, wouldn't they?
Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could.
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.
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.
We look to the left and to the right And we need help but nobody's in sight Where is the man that we all need Tell him he's to come and rescue me.
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.
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.