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

I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.

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.

If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

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

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.

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