Magna Carta has 63 clauses in abbreviated Latin. Two of them that are still on the statute book, numbers 39 and 40, could be said to have changed the way in which the free world has grown.

It is in our culture that we don't want to admit that our culture is good.

What artists are doing, and what people who are receiving the arts are doing, is entering into this agreement to occupy a parallel world. The parallel world is ever-expanding. We used to think that it existed only for people who were wealthy, well-born, or educated. It isn't like that.

I'm a class mongrel.

I think television does tease out a certain vanity in everybody when you look at yourself and you go, 'Oh Christ.' Maybe that's why my intros get shorter and shorter.

Television, above all, is the place where people can see the world they live in, and if the world they live in is a world without the arts, so much the worse for television, and so much the worse for the viewers.

Class doesn't create culture anymore.

There are two big beasts in the arts: the BBC and Sky Arts - challenging, leading the way.

Magna Carta has become totemic. It is in the comedy of Tony Hancock, in the poetry of Kipling, never far from the front pages in a constitutional crisis.

Compared to the big 19th-century novelists, I've got a slim volume of work.

Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do, and to think of this attitude as 'very English?'

Print reporters have the opportunity to go so much more in depth in certain stories than television reporters do because they're working on stories for months at a time.

I always feel like I want more time with my kids. But I reject the notion that you can't have it all. I think you can: just not necessarily in abundance.

While I don't think Trump wants to target any particular minority group, I understand their fear because he spent many months stoking it.

This is the U.S.A., and it's the most glorious place to live in the world.

I think that 'Fox News' is fair and balanced.

I've lived in New York state almost my entire life, so my votes never count.

I think my viewers want smart, honest programming. They don't want to be told what makes them feel good.

Somebody saying something offensive to you or insulting to you is not pleasant, but it's part of life.

I don't see myself as some television star; I see myself as a girl from Albany.

I want to see my kids for dinner. I want to put them down at night. I want to see their soccer games after school.

I'm steeped in the news because I enjoy the news - I like reading papers, I like reading the blogs, I love talking to newsmakers and pundits, for that matter, about their opinions. I'm an information gatherer by nature, so that's what attracted me about this industry.

Obviously, I'm in a visual business, and people will talk to me about my appearance.

You know, I was not an attractive child - I never had a cute face.