I Have Only Ever Borrowed Money For

I'm Never Going To Take The View That I Should Say Whatever I Need To Say In Order To Achieve Something. Because That Implies A Level Of Dishonesty.

I Employed My Wife For Three Years To Sit In The Attic And Type Up My Autobiography, 700 Pages, Organise Everywhere I Go. I'm Paying The Normal Rate Of Tax On The Money I Take Out For Myself.

Anybody Who Enjoys Being In The House Of Commons Probably Needs Psychiatric Help.

The Tories Had The Legal Right To Demand Extra Meetings Of The Council But I Could Decide When They Would Be Held And Always Called Them For Friday Afternoons, Knowing That Three Or Four Of The Richer Tories Went To The Country Early And Were Not Prepared To Stay In The City Beyond Lunchtime. I Realised That Nothing In Politics Is New When I Read In Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars That Julius Caesar Pulled The Same Trick When Reactionaries In The Senate Were Making His Life Difficult.

Politics Is Not A Game. Thousands Of People's Jobs And Services Depended On What The Glc Did, And They Expected Us To Do The Best We Could.