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

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.

All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?

World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

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.

It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.