I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.

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

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

I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.

I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.

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

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.