Quotes by Andrew Marr

“I can make Tony Blair, Michael Howard, Charles Kennedy or anyone else look bumbling, irrelevant, tetchy... or rather brilliant.”

“Yet the barely-moving polls and the lack of major gaffes or policy collapses has made it duller than I, for one, hoped it would be.”

“Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.”

“I think it requires leadership from editors and senior broadcasters to try and turn that around and back off the position where we are opinionated first, and come round to the facts later,”

“If all newspapers are losing circulation, maybe its just worth trying to go back to some reporting, to see if that might be the reason - even if only one newspaper tried it, to see what happened.”

“There is a market for pictures like this. Diana sold an awful lot of newspapers one way or another. But look at the result. We all have to think again.”

“I did lots of things before I came into politics which I shouldnt have done. We all did.”

“It [the Enlightenment] is clearly the foundation of the modern world. Almost everything we are arguing about at the moment - whether its the religious hatred law and free speech, immigration, the movement of peoples, goods and services and what that does to national identity, or the proper limits of the state - go back to the positions first set out in the Enlightenment.”

“This has been an extremely uncomfortable week for Mr Blair.”

Verbally, Im quite fast on my feet. I could embarrass or anger most people if I wanted to.

In the end, does it really matter if newspapers physically disappear? Probably not: the world is always changing. But does it matter if organisations independent enough and rich enough to employ journalists to do their job disappear? Yes, that matters hugely; it affects the whole of life and society.