Always Quote by Emily Maitlis

There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if it makes…

— Armando Iannucci

I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.

— Jonathan Dimbleby

The BBC is another part of the destruction of Great Britain. The truth is that the BBC doesn't know that it is biased. It…

— Norman Tebbit

I don't have any quarrel with the BBC.

— James May

I like the fact the BBC allows you to criticise the BBC without firing you.

— Richard Bacon

Too often, there are complaints in the British papers about the BBC. It's too left wing, too right wing, too pro-Brexit, too anti, and…

— Sandi Toksvig

The BBC is consistently manipulated by Brexiteers into providing them with false parity in arguments where their views add nothing, represent nobody and are…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place…

— Jonathan Dimbleby

The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.

— Andrew Davies

The establishment is a dirty, dangerous beast, and the BBC is a mouthpiece for that.

— Ken Stott

The BBC is very aware of its role in shaping people's consciousness... it's manipulative and deeply political.

— Ken Loach

The BBC will always be attacked by whoever is in government. It is that George Bush thing of 'If you're not with us you…

— Graham Norton