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.

Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.

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 go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.

I don't just denounce suicide bombers. I denounce those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy.

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.