Andrew Neil Quotes

Andrew Neil

Profession : Journalist

Birth : May 21, 1949

Well, we all make mistakes, and I've made some; getting involved in a price-cutting campaign in Scotland when the biggest slump in advertising history was just around the corner was a mistake.

Andrew Neil

As one of the grammar-school generation, I grew up as part of a postwar meritocracy that steadily infiltrated the citadels of power.

Andrew Neil

I don't say for a moment that the far right is no longer a problem. We have seen the neo-Nazi nutters in Charlottesville in America.

Andrew Neil

No-one in their right mind would buy the 'New Statesman' and change it from being a left-wing to a right-wing magazine.

Andrew Neil

WMR is wholly devoted to acquiring and exploiting rights. We're not a production company, and we're not a broadcaster.

Andrew Neil

Britain is now living with the consequences of allowing an underclass to take root and fester.

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During the Blair-Brown decade social concerns - what kind of society we have become - have gradually replaced economic worries. People fear that we have become an increasingly fragmented, boorish, more violent society.

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Rupert Murdoch has been around since the dinosaurs. He knows how to get around any independent board - as he did with me, and as he's done with other editors as well.

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I don't think the standard of our politicians is very high. And when you get good ones, world-class ones, like a Blair or a Brown or a Thatcher, then they do stand out - they are head and shoulders above everybody else.

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The Sunday paper is an odd British cultural tradition.

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I am a better journalist than I am a businessman.

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The English are a tolerant bunch and, outside elements of the London elite, never much minded the rise of the Scottish Raj: after all, we were British, well-educated, reasonably cultivated and spoke with clear, classless accents.

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Journalists always want publishers or editors to leave. They're creative troublemakers - that's why you hire them.

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It is actually getting much harder for someone from an ordinary background to break through the ranks. In the period from 1964 to 1997, every single Prime Minister - from Harold Wilson to John Major - was the product of a state school.

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That's the only time when newspapers have some influence, when they are pushing the British public in a direction they are already minded to go.

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I don't fall in love easily... But I do fall in love.

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I always wanted to have a career in print and as a broadcaster.

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I spend a lot of time in New York.

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Those who claim to be in the know say Baros is nothing out of the ordinary as Maldivian islands go - that Reethi Ra is far more fashionable, Soneva Fushi more eco-compliant. Truth to tell, they all look pretty much alike from a distance.

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You have to live and breathe Scotland if you're 'Scotsman' editor.

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