When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.

We've got to get rid of the fear of failure in this country. In America, people start things, fail and shake themselves down and start things again. The animal spirit of capitalism is stronger there.

Imagine if we succeed in inspiring our audiences to reduce their own impacts on climate change by just 1 percent. That would be like turning the state of California off for almost two months.

I feel that people I trusted - I don't know who, on what level - have let me down, and I think they have behaved disgracefully, and it's for them to pay. And I think, frankly, that I'm the best person to see it through.

If Boris [Johnson] backtracks on serious things there'll be another bloody revolt.

Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.