I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.

There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough.

World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.

The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.

Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you

If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It

If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare.

Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.

To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live

I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.

I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.

Motivation and determination for anything comes from within. One can not barrow it from someone else.

Rejection is part of the game. Or rather, rejection is part of the profession. A profession which at times can feel like a game.

My children have made me a better man, which is - in the end, that's probably more important than two more comedy specials or being in better shape.

How many students ... were rendered callous to ideas, and how many lost the impetus to learn because of the way in which learning was experienced by them?

[Kim Kardashian] is one of the hardest-working women I've been around ever.

I do not separate France from Europe.

We've pretended too much in our family, Luke, and hidden far too much. I think we're all going to pay a high price for our inability to face the truth.

Your husband is lazy if the directions on his medicine say, "A teaspoon before going to bed," and in one day he uses seven bottles.

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.