"The great background question about the Labour governments……" — Andrew Marr
"The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the country's big problems and dealt with them. How did it happen that a cabinet of such brilliant, such clever and self-confident people achieved so little? In part, it was the effect of the whirling court politics demonstrated by 'In Place of Strife'."
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Andrew Marr
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12 Quotes by Andrew Marr
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Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.
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Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you…
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Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical…
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The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The…
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Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.
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History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.
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Clearly the human story is one of acceleration. There has been a Moore curve in terms of the number of…
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In the end, does it really matter if newspapers physically disappear? Probably not: the world is always changing. But does…
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Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.
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Unlike the general public, I rather like most politicians.
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Interviews, and hence interviewers, are there to help shed light, and to let viewers judge for themselves. We are not…
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If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will…
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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is…
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved…
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
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If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.
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