Any affair, by its very nature, is quite dysfunctional.

The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.

In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation.

Sometimes I suspect most of the media commentariat are suffering from Munchausen syndrome.

I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer.

We have paid the police for information in the past.

It’s very difficult to trace convicted paedophiles

I was the editor of the News of the World; I was the editor of the Sun and chief executive.

You must remain. I must depart.Two autumns falling in the heart.

Hope as evidence of life. Life as evidence of death.

Will you stop drinking whiskey? Let me plead with you to do so. And if the sisters would not think it oppressive, I would ask them to not drink quite so much strong tea.

I have to deal with some dumb folks. It's a real drag.

The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

One of my favorite films is LATE SPRING by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.

I dont know of one group of people thats more disliked than politicians -- it may be the folks who gave us the Wall Street bailout. And thats where Mitt Romney comes from.

Schizophrenia demons live in my head.

Caring less what everybody else thinks, but also caring less and less about what your own mind thinks, because what your own mind thinks, sometimes, is the thing that makes you sad.