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

I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.

There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

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.

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.

Just because I am critical of the coalition doesn't mean I am anti-English. I am just anti-scumbags.

I never came into life with any favours or privileges.