We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.

The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed.

Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio.

Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.

The BBC is a perfect example of uncontrolled growth, [occupying] old churches and manor houses, the old Langham Hotel where Sherlock Holmes once met Moriarty and where this correspondent once shared an office with an 8-foot bathtub.

You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.