I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people.

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?

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

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

I refuse not to have a sense of humour.

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.