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

Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.

I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.

Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth.

Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.

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

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.