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I think politicians who suggest they are uninterested in the support of newspapers are not being straight with people.

The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government.

Newspapers can make their own judgment in terms of who they support in a general election. Our responsibility is to make a considered judgment about where the national interest lies.

I think we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence.

Politicians around the world are very different, but they all have one thing in common: The first thing they respond to is public opinion.

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!

We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.

Any politician in a democracy has to be mindful of public opinion.

The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.

I believe that a newspaper is a great civic asset and that ownership is best in the hands of foundations or wealthy families that want to own it for reasons other than maximizing profits. I also believe newspapers should remain in local hands.