Andrew Neil Quotes

Andrew Neil

Profession : Journalist

Birth : May 21, 1949

Ever since I left the 'Sunday Times' there has been a group of scribes waiting for me to fall on my face, and having a go at my commercial record, looking to pick holes in it.

Andrew Neil

I read more bloggers now than mainstream columnists, because they've got more interesting things to say.

Andrew Neil

You don't really appreciate how much you are going to miss your parents. I keep thinking of all the times I should have made the effort to go up and see them but didn't.

Andrew Neil

This is the only country in the world where you can be criticised for trying too hard. That's a put-down in London.

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Like all populist movements, the Tea Party will eventually peter out. It won't succeed in returning America to the minimalist state of the 19th century.

Andrew Neil

I'm a bit of a loner.

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Not all Republicans in the class of 2010 owe their seats to the Tea Party. But many do.

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With each step away from communist constructivism to Hayekian capitalism, China has been richly rewarded.

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Class and the snobbery it provokes still matter far too much in Britain, but we are a far more mobile society than we used to be.

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With sad, depressing predictability, the children of today's underclass become tomorrow's criminals and dropouts.

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You know, Rupert Murdoch I've said is like an Italian when it comes to negotiations.

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Every house has to have rules - even 'Animal House.'

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There's a substantial difference between dumping 100 copies of the 'Telegraph' at a Connex South Central station and giving away copies of the 'Business' with the 'Mail on Sunday.' 'This kind of circulation is valuable and enhances the brand. Leaving them anywhere willy-nilly devalues the brand.

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I've got a house that's only 45 minutes from Monte Carlo.

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Since the Holocaust, anti-Semitism is no longer respectable. It was in the 1920s and '30s, but the Holocaust obviously changed that.

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If the traditional British elite had made a great success of running my country, as successful, say, as the elites of Germany, Japan and America, then maybe it would be a club worth joining.

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I made it clear when the Barclays took over the 'Telegraph' that I wanted no editorial position there. There is no way I could take a high-level editorial position at the papers. I have my work for the BBC, and that would be compromised if I did.

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The only exception to the demise/struggles of the European centre-left is Macron, in French presidential and parliamentary elections 2017.

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The Sun' and the 'News of the World' fell in line behind New Labour in the run up to the 1997 election, 'The Times' stayed broadly neutral and 'The Sunday Times' unenthusiastically Tory. After the election, 'The Times' quickly fell in line as the New Labour house journal.

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Americans have this patrician attitude that they have a God-given right to produce these boring newspapers and not be challenged to do it. 'The New York Times' really thinks it's the BBC.

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