No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

I do have a residual belief that, if at all possible, you should try not to mock the weak.

In Britian we have a free press. It's not a pretty press, but it's free. The people who can't bear the Daily Mail, they say: 'you should ban it'. No, no, no, no, you don't ban it... you don't buy it.

I've seen the Pokémon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.

Modest about our national pride - and inordinately proud of our national modesty.

I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?'

I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.

That's the positive aspect of trade I suppose. The world gets stirred up together. That's about as much as I have to say for it.

You will be someone else if you did not answer the question “Who am I

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

NATO was a wonderful idea. It was formed in 1949. We are as far away from NATO as NATO was when it was done in time from the presidency of Grover Cleveland.

Here you come again, looking better than a body has a right to.

It always hurts when you lose a secret.

Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows.

There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate.

The rewards that will flow from a successful shift to a low carbon economy are high. Neither governments nor business can afford to let these opportunities pass them by

I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.