I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.

I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.

If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.

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.

World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.

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.

I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.