A committee is an animal with four back legs.

You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done.

On one hand we go like hell for every terror cell we can find, we penetrate it, we destroy it. On the other hand, there is a much bigger need for a political solution.

What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?

A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.

When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again.

In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.