Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavour - an almost neutral environmental effect coupled with the ability to travel substantial distances without disturbing anybody. The bike is the perfect marriage of technology and human energy.

You grow your way to prosperity; you don't cut your way to it.

I want a world of peace. I'm not interested in bombs. I'm not interested in wars. I'm interested in peace.

I'm a leader, not a dictator. I want to persuade people rather than threaten or control them.

I think NATO is a Cold War product. I think NATO historically should have shut up shop in 1990 along with the Warsaw Pact; unfortunately, it didn't.

Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.

I'm just a very normal person, living in north London, doing my best for my area and to put forward some serious debate on issues in the party.

We can create a new kind of politics: kinder, more respectful, but courageous, too.

Cycling is good for people in all ways: their health, their well-being, and it does no damage to the environment. It can, however, be dangerous, and this has to be addressed.