Ken Livingstone

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

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

Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth.

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

The civil service are risk averse.

If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.

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

I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.

The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says.