Occupation: Former Mayor Of London Birth: June 17, 1945
I feel a degree of regret that Marshall did not push on and say 'abolish the GLC' because I think it would have been a major saving and would have re….
I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty..
You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again..
I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to..
You cannot just have a socialist revolution in Norwood and nowhere else..
I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics..
I think George Bush is the most corrupt American president since Harding in the Twenties. He is not the legitimate president. This really is a comple….
I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I go. I'm paying the normal rate ….
I never came into life with any favours or privileges..
I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid..
Ed Miliband doesn't give a damn about what he looks like, how he dresses. He came into politics to change society..
I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career..
Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help..
I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them..
I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life..
We look to the left and to the right And we need help but nobody's in sight Where is the man that we all need Tell him he's to come and rescue me..
I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world..
I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage..
Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determini….
I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law..
I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists..