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

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.

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

I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.

What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?

I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.

I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it. But you pay corporation tax. If you're then taking it out and spending it on yourself, you have to pay more.