For politicians to be honest, the public needs to allow them to be honest, and the media, which mediates between the politicians… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
When you're doing mountain rescue, you don't take a doctorate in mountain rescue; you look for somebody who knows the terrain. It's… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot. — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
The thing that interests me most about Scotland is how we differ from our neighbours. How do our ambitions differ? What kind… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
I did stuff for three years in Kabul that I found exciting, and a lot of that was fixing roofs, talking about… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
I don't know much about Britain. I've been working overseas for most of my adult life. So I'd like to see what… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
I think one of the odd things about public life, coming from the outside, is that people seem to be paranoid. Maybe… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
Politics feels, on what I have seen of it, like joining a tribe, and a lot of it is about unspoken ways… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable. — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
If a relationship is going wrong, if a marriage is going wrong, the answer cannot simply be to say, 'You can't afford to break… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
“He [Babur] was a ype of mastiff, bred to fight against wolves, dogs, and humans. . . . The mastiff is perhaps the oldest… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
The politicians think the journalists have power, the journalists think bankers have power, bankers think lawyers have power. The truth is, nobody has power. — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
“I recited and followed this song-of-the-places-in-between as a map.” — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
The Afghan government is much better informed, much more intrusive and ambitious than I had guessed. There are amazing craftsmen in Kabul but few… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
I have planted over 6,000 trees at home in Scotland, some of them oak. I'd like my children to be able to watch them grow. — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
If things are going wrong in a country, it's not usually that we don't have enough foreigners. It's usually that we have too many. — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
For politicians to be honest, the public needs to allow them to be honest, and the media, which mediates between the politicians and the… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
“My feet beat out a steady muffled rhythm. My thoughts participated in each step, never getting ahead of me.” — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
I left things out - my motivations, my history, my emotional responses - because I am not good at understanding them or writing about… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
