The ultimate date for me would be with someone fantastic, fun and great - and we'd go to the Lennox Lewis<br>Mike Tyson fight.
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.
You know what speed is. You would not believe a man who claimed to walk at 5 miles an hour, but took 3 hours to walk 6 miles. You have only to apply the same common sense to stones rolling down hillsides, and the calculus is at your command.
Oh how I wish he (Franklin Pierce) was out of political life! How much better it would be for him on every account!
I mean in the community that I grew up in, you know, a very, you know, mixed, almost entirely African Diaspora community, one of the things that we were not ever supposed to say was how much self-hatred and colorism determined and guided what we would call our desire. In other words, what we would consider beautiful.
They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.
The ultimate date for me would be with someone fantastic, fun and great - and we'd go to the Lennox LewisMike Tyson fight.