I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, Having Been Elected

I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, Having Been Elected To The Office Of Mayor Of London, Declare That I Take That Office Upon Myself, And Will Duly And Faithfully Fulfil The Duties Of It To The Best Of My Judgement And Ability.

Working With The Jewish Community Is Essential To Me And What I Stand For. I Do Explicitly See Jewish People As A People - Not Either A Religion Or An Ethnicity But A People. The Tories Take Jewish London For Granted. I Will Not.

I Think George Bush Is The Most Corrupt American President Since Harding In The Twenties. He Is Not The Legitimate President. This Really Is A Completely Unsupportable Government And I Look Forward To It Being Overthrown As Much As I Looked Forward To Saddam Hussein Being Overthrown.

I Don't Work Hard Enough. If I Had Worked Harder I Might Have Been Prime Minister.

When You Get Into Politics, You Find That All Your Worst Nightmares About It Turn Out To Be True, And The People Who Are Attracted To Large Concentrations Of Power Are Precisely The Ones Who Should Be Kept As Far Away From It As Possible.