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I want to stop Brexit.
Funerals should celebrate a life.
I cry at births and not at funerals.
In difficult times, most of us need friends.
Life is about relationships, not transactions.
The U.S. has always been an indispensable ally.
I've never learned to speak a foreign language with ease.
The hand that wields the knife shall never wear the crown.
My father was a member of the Dunkirk Veterans Association.
Anyone who goes through divorce goes through a very hard time.
Viewers don't like rudeness, but they like us to be persistent.
My first day at Duddingston Primary is probably my first memory.
Rich, poor, white, people of colour, are all equally irreplaceable.
A magazine once asked my favourite beauty product and I said water.
Receiving my first degree was one of the most important days of my life.
There is so much unreliable information on the internet and in the media.
My taste in coffee has got better with age, and so has my taste in music.
One of my American heroes is the great former U.S. diplomat George Kennan.
Maybe I should declare a bias. I like Americans. Always have. Always will.
Brexit is not only not just about left and right. Brexit is about expertise.
World leaders and major political figures have often had delusions of grandeur.
A celebrity can gain attention in our otherwise busy lives. And celebrity sells.
The very idea of a Party of God, Hizbollah, puts the fear of God into British hearts.
Maybe because I've worked in the BBC for so long I am completely allergic to meetings.
Government is not a game show, though at times it is amusing and entertaining to watch.
As journalists we are sceptical by nature, but there are some things you take on trust.
Populism, literally, means speaking for 'the people.' In practice it means demagoguery.
I mostly like politicians. Very few of them are evil, although quite a lot are delusional.
Compromise disappoints those who buy into the most ambitious and simplistic populist slogans.
A Jethro Tull album was - along with Cream and Led Zeppelin - one of the first I ever bought.
Nobody is infallible, but it is important to have trusted guides when it comes to information.
My idea of heaven is being in Arizona, stuck up a mountain - somewhere where there are no phones.
I'm not anti-American. But I am very strongly anti American bacon - the worst bacon in the world.
I feel very fragile cycling in London, whereas in Berlin there are proper cycle paths everywhere.
The U.S. Constitution has absorbed the end of slavery, the Civil War, Civil Rights and Watergate.
A British politician who cloaks himself in the mantle of God is immediately regarded with suspicion.
We need to create a sense of shame about racism, and about leaders who deliberately mislead and lie.
International politics attracts politicians who talk a good game, but whose achievements are often slender.
As a teenager in Scotland, I had American friends, sons and daughters of officers at a U.S. Air Force base.
A political and economic system that only works for a small group at the top is a system that needs to change.
When I visit universities in the U.A.E., the U.S. and across Europe, I see the faces of the leaders of tomorrow.
Public displays of puritanical religiosity mask the private perversions of the real Washington behind closed doors.
Mini-skirts, Prada and Agnes B are for New York and L.A. Washington is more America's equivalent of Marks & Spencer.
Whether anyone has ever changed their mind as a result of a celebrity endorsement of a candidate is a bit of a mystery.
I did modern English and American literature at Kent University, with no Chaucer and no Middle English: a perfect course.
I spent the first three years of my life with my parents, grandmother and two aunties in a tiny council house in Glasgow.
Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull is now a good friend, and the thing that strikes you about him is that he's all about details.
Donald Trump's tweets attract ridicule from some. But clearly they communicate effectively with his millions of supporters.
There are people who appear on television who are paid for by shadowy think tanks whose financing they won't come clean about.
During my childhood in the Cold War, my family saw America as a great ally in our common struggle to keep back Soviet communism.