[The] BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she's a champagne-soaked floozie, her skirts in disarray, her mind in the gutter, and the mixture can be quite wonderful.

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.

I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.

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.