I never came into life with any favours or privileges.
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 can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.
Everyone changes all the time.
Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.
I refuse not to have a sense of humour.
I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.
The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.
I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.
My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.
I've never declined to do an interview.
I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.
I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.
I swim three times a week.
I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.
Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth.
When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay between the cleaner and the director general was a four-to-one ratio. I find that attractive.
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 Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.
What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?
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.
I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.
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