“I am what I am….both as a result of people who respected me and helped me, and of those who did not respect me and treated me badly. Nelson Mandela” — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
“I think, of course, all politicians have a sense of their own image, but he had it in an unusual extent. And, when I first knew him in the '50s, when I was living in Johannesburg, I thought it was… — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
“I am what I am….both as a result of people who respected me and helped me, and of those who did not respect me… — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
“The rich feel much less need than their predecessors to account for their wealth, whether to society, to governments or to God. Their attitudes… — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They… — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble. — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed withtalkative intellectuals, full… — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation. — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
“I think, of course, all politicians have a sense of their own image, but he had it in an unusual extent. And, when I… — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as 'Call Me God') to KCMG ('Kindly Call Me God') to .. the GCMG ('God Calls… — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
