When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion.

I have never been good at doing impressions of women. Which is understandable. There's a gender issue.

It's harder to take politics seriously, to understand the issues, than it is to drown it all in a sea of scorn. And while the world cries out for greater analysis and insight, we are distracted by bread and circuses, aka the 'Great British Bake-Off' and 'Tumble.' We should rediscover our tradition of satire. Of speaking truth unto power.

It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

I think all that we would know of America back home is foreign policy, and maybe the snippets of the madness of political culture.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Experience in other countries shows how big money, rather than the best political candidate, can influence politics.