Kenneth Robert Livingstone

"I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it."

"I do the gardening."

"I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul."

"I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics."

"Politics is not a healthy lifestyle."

"Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London."