I think George Bush is the most corrupt American president since Harding in the Twenties. He is not the legitimate president. This really is a completely unsupportable government and I look forward to it being overthrown as much as I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being overthrown.

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.

If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It

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

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.

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 loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.