I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.

I've always sort of thought that politics was a high and noble calling and a good thing to do.

London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country.

The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.

We have a responsibility as ex-soldiers to realise we're no longer in the military. All this 'once a soldier, always a soldier', that's all well and good, but that attitude doesn't work in society.

I am livid with rage, sitting here in chains through this mad war which kills any meaning of life... My nerves are shattered and my mind darkened.

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

One of the themes of 'The Longest War,' my book, which came out before the Arab spring happened, was how al-Qaida and bin Laden was losing the war of ideas in the Muslim world, not because the United States was winning them, but because al-Qaida was simply losing them.