I trained as a journalist in America where paying sources is frowned upon. Now I work in the U.K. where there is a more flexible attitude.

When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.

It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.

There's not a self-regulating group of nice fair-playing people in politics. There are a lot of dodgy people in politics.

Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.

The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.

He hadn’t saved her. He hadn’t even bothered trying.

Remember to add the most important ingredient to every recipe you make - your love!

When you live by understanding, you will not live in deception

He looked at her uncomfortably; blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

I'm against the partial-birth abortion, but you've got to have an exception for the life of the mother and the health of the mother under the strictest test of bodily injury to the mother.

There's no reason for the electors to overrule the popular choice.

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The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt.