I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.
I grew up in a house with very few books.
I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for. I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people. The Tories take Jewish London for granted. I will not.
I refuse not to have a sense of humour.
I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.
Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.
I take a much more pragmatic view than many people on the Left about working with Neil Kinnock. Kinnock represents the best vehicle possible for achieving socialism now.
Everyone is bisexual. Almost everyone has the sexual potential for anything.
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.
The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.
I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.
Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.
If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.
If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.
I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.
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.
When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates, you have to think, 'You are a complete idiot.'
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.
The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear.
I feel a degree of regret that Marshall did not push on and say 'abolish the GLC' because I think it would have been a major saving and would have released massive resources for productive use.
I think George Bush is the most corrupt American president since Harding in the Twenties. He is not the legitimate president. This really is a completely unsupportable government and I look forward to it being overthrown as much as I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being overthrown.
If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone.
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