I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

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

Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you

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

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.

Well, on lots of small things we could have done better, but on all the big things we called it right. You should make less mistakes as you get older, and I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.