Andrew Marr

“The one economic medicine so bitter that no minister in the seventies had thought of trying it was duly uncorked and poured…

— Andrew Marr

“The real conundrum”

— Andrew Marr

“They then named one day after the Moon and another after the Sun, giving them a seven-day week. Seven was regarded as…

— Andrew Marr

“Gutenberg had died after inventing Europe’s first real printing press. The Chinese and Koreans had long used wood-block printing, and even ceramic…

— Andrew Marr

The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the…

— Andrew Marr

“For Reuter, it was the last act of the Great War and something which reduced, if it did not remove, the shame…

— Andrew Marr

Clearly the human story is one of acceleration. There has been a Moore curve in terms of the number of people alive…

— Andrew Marr

“My dream is that by returning to our not-so-distant history, I might remind readers why, with all its faults, this is a…

— Andrew Marr

Unlike the general public, I rather like most politicians.

— Andrew Marr

In the end, does it really matter if newspapers physically disappear? Probably not: the world is always changing. But does it matter…

— Andrew Marr

Verbally, I'm quite fast on my feet. I could embarrass or anger most people if I wanted to.

— Andrew Marr

The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians,…

— Andrew Marr

“all those roads and ports, spread these belief systems faster. Some seem to have mingled ancient beliefs with Buddhist and Hindu thinking…

— Andrew Marr

The only time I penetrated Tony Blair's defenses over Iraq was by keeping eye contact while telling him he never seemed to…

— Andrew Marr

“Philip had warned the Spartans that if he brought his armies successfully into their territory he would destroy their cities and kill…

— Andrew Marr

“Writing a history of the world is a ridiculous thing to do. The amount of information is too vast for any individual…

— Andrew Marr

The British happened to the rest of the world. Now the world happens to Britain.

— Andrew Marr

Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.

— Andrew Marr

I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.

— Andrew Marr

Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing…

— Andrew Marr

“The Chinese death-toll in the chaotic fighting of the Second World War has been estimated at around twenty million, outstripping by far…

— Andrew Marr

“Ned Parminter was in love. He assumed it must be love, because it felt like indigestion – or, to be frank, Irritable…

— Andrew Marr

“It seems that after the African migration, small numbers of Homo sapiens were better adapted to manage these shifts in climate than…

— Andrew Marr

The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of…

— Andrew Marr

“Diz-se que Constantino, determinado a não ser feito prisioneiro, se despojou de todas as suas insígnias imperiais, o púrpura e as águias,…

— Andrew Marr