Quotes from Sadiq Khan

Labour was founded to make the lives of working people better and to create more opportunities for everyone. Whether it's aspiring to work as a nurse in a hospital or setting up and running your own business, Labour should be about ensuring fairness so that everyone has the same chance in life to reach their goals.

Labour accepts that the European Court of Human Rights needs reform.

A duty to the public must be to stop prisoners reoffending through successful rehabilitation.

My experience in relation to taking on the preachers of hate was saying to them it's compatible being British, being Western, being Muslim.

There is no manual on how to run a global city like London. But I'm hugely proud of what we've been able to achieve in just the first year.

It's too easy to dismiss Donald Trump as a buffoon - to point and laugh at a man whose worldview is as ridiculous as his hairdo. But to do so is to make light of a very serious threat.

I don't just empathise with the victims of Islamophobia; I worry about my own friends and family.

I'll be my own man and work closely with a Tory Government if it is in London's interest.

Thousands of people's lives improved in this country through human rights laws. Individual people taking on the all-powerful state and winning. You'd think a very Tory thing to do. Sadly not, under Cameron's leadership.

Major miscarriages of justice have occurred because of the absence of proper legal representation.

Legal aid is crucial in ensuring those truly guilty of crimes are convicted after due process, and those innocent are able to clear their names, by ensuring that access to legal representation is available for everyone, regardless of ability to pay.

Immigrant communities have been genuinely accepted in London.

When Pakistan beat England at cricket, my Pakistani cousins remind me how English and British I am. When they say, 'You're one of the Queen's advisers,' for them it's, 'Wow - anything's possible in the U.K.'

The U.K. has some of the toughest legislation on hate crime in the world, and it is there to keep us all safe.

We need to make it safe to cycle across London. Why not pedestrianise parts of London like Oxford Street and Parliament Square? I intend to plant 200 million trees across London in my term as mayor.

Education is important even beyond the bounds of the opportunities it gives to the individual; it is a crucial and basic requirement for ensuring effective democracy and human rights.

I think Bill de Blasio is doing interesting housing stuff in New York, Rahm Emanuel is doing interesting stuff with the infrastructure bank in Chicago. I want to go to America to meet with and engage with American mayors.

I value loyalty and believe that internal disagreements shouldn't be voiced in the media - because divided parties lose elections.

Legal aid is central to righting wrongs and rectifying injustice.

Some people say that rough sleeping has always existed and always will - that there is nothing that can be done to stop it. That is simply not true.

Opportunity must be underpinned by security - and Labour must offer that security.

Labour is at its best when we understand how the country has changed and we adapt to new circumstances.

Only Labour is in a position to protect individual rights against abuses by the state.

We should celebrate when optimism and hard work triumph over cynicism, lethargy, and fatalism.