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

I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.

I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.

The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.

If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone.

Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.

I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.