If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war..

My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London..

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

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….

The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held and always called them for Friday a….

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 fa….

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

The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear..

[Pigeons are] rats with wings..

What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes y….

One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era..

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 ….

I've never declined to do an interview..

I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights..

Everyone is bisexual. Almost everyone has the sexual potential for anything..

I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts..