I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated.

I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.

Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.

There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.

It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.