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Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

Jeremy, are we going to play your games?

There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.

Tony's [Blair] convinced I'm going to find God. I do have spiritual moments, but I don't think it's God.

I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

There is something in me that makes me see things through.

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

I had a happy childhood.

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died.

I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.

Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.

I think I'm highly loveable.

The junk food of political journalism ... all reshuffle stories are crap.

As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the options are obvious.

I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply.

The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.

I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can.

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

Greg Dyke is on record as saying that once the BBC was attacked, it was their job to defend themselves. But that is not their job.