Fortunately for Dimitri, I had his back.
I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers.
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, and 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.
When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay between the cleaner and the director general was a four-to-one ratio. I find that attractive.
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 spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.
I swim three times a week.
The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.
People in suburbia see trees differently than foresters do. They cherish every one. It is useless to speak of the probability that a certain tree will die when the tree is in someone's backyard. . . . You are talking about a personal asset, a friend, a monument, not about board feet of lumber.
A little backflip (backflips), but it's not part of Parkour, but i like doing this since i did gym.
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.