Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!

Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee.

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.

It is almost impossible to say the name of Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawat without adding 'give a dog a bone'

When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.

Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.

I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.

Tony Blair has always said he will be judged by history. Now Alastair Campbell is history we await his judgment.

I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.

When George Bush finally leaves the White House, the satire industry will briefly join the rest of the economy in recession. It will certainly be the end of an era.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

Sometimes you just want to stop and dance and celebrate mortality. Stop, dance feed your spirit.

When you get right down to it, militaries are essentially legalized mafias.

A lot of the issues that I see, it is not an either-or situation.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

Who wants an orange whip? Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips.

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

I think too many Democrats are too wimpy. But I think they're beginning to toughen up.

For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.

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