Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you

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

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 market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn't protect the environment unless it's regulated, it doesn't train your workforce unless it's regulated, and it doesn't give you the long-term investment you want.

I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

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.

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