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.

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

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

Killing is the payoff of war.

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.

Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express.

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.