Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you.

My only regret is the media's obsession with the past.

To avoid manufactured misunderstandings, the policies of Israeli governments are not analogous to Nazism. They do not aim at the systematic extermination of the Palestinian people, in the way Nazism sought the annihilation of the Jews.

I've never declined to do an interview.

Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.

It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the congestion charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.

I could not cherish London and not value Jewish London. The contribution of Jews to London is immense -- politically, economically, culturally, intellectually, philanthropically, artistically.

I can't understand why anyone would want to live the life of a politician if you can't say pretty much what you think. You are not in it for the money: there's unremitting pressure on your life, you give up so much of your privacy. It can only be because of the things you want to do and the things you want to say.

Most politicians aren't allowed to express themselves any more.

Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth.

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.

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people -- not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.

You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.

I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.

If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

Climate change means catastrophically violent weather.

I grew up in a house with very few books.

I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.