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

I never came into life with any favours or privileges.

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

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 have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.

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

The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear.