I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.
I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.
Everyone changes all the time.
I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.
I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for. I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people. The Tories take Jewish London for granted. I will not.
I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.
I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.
Give me the whole world to run and then I'll be happy. If tomorrow I was told I had to sort out the whole world's problems I'd sleep like a baby.
Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.
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.
I refuse not to have a sense of humour.
I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.
If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.
If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.
Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.
I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.
I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.
I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.
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.
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.
The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.
What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?
I take a much more pragmatic view than many people on the Left about working with Neil Kinnock. Kinnock represents the best vehicle possible for achieving socialism now.
