Andrew Marr Quotes

United Kingdom, Political Commentator
July 31, 1959

Andrew William Stevenson Marr (born 31 July 1959) is a British political commentator and television presenter. Beginning his career as a political commentator, he subsequently edited The Independent newspaper (1996–98), and was political editor of BBC News (2000–05). He began hosting a political programme—Sunday AM, now called The Andrew Marr Show—on Sunday mornings on BBC One from September 2005. In 2002, Marr took over as host of BBC Radio 4's long-running Start the Week Monday morning discussion programme .

Also known as Television Presenter

One aspect of politics too little acknowledged is that besides being jolly serious and all that, it is also a hugely enjoyable game for boys.

Andrew Marr
- Game
- Serious
- Boys
The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians, who don't have easy access to official documents, who aren't able to buttonhole people in power.

Andrew Marr

Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.

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- Long
- Politician
- Rude
Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you will - really marks the sixties. It was when Britain went girlie. And what do girls do? Girls shop.

Andrew Marr
- Life
- Long
- Girl
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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- History
- Moral
- Argument
Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.

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- Time
- Journalism
- Nine
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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- People
- Great
- Country
The British happened to the rest of the world. Now the world happens to Britain.

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- World
- Rest
- Happens

The so-called citizen journalism is the spewings and rantings of very drunk people late at night. It is fantastic at times but it is not going to replace journalism. … Most of the blogging is too angry and too abusive. Terrible things are said online because they are anonymous. People say things online that they wouldn't dream of saying in person.'

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- People
- Dream
- Night
Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.

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

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- Time
- Eye
- Sorry
The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows it has been a ragged and confusing trade all the way through.

Andrew Marr
- Truth
- Modern
- Journalism
A lot of bloggers seem to be socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed young men sitting in their mother's basements and ranting. They are very angry people.

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- People
- Men
- Mother
My big toe alone is the size of Yorkshire.

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- Alone
- Bigs
- Size

Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.

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- Mind
- Fear
- Interest
Business never rests.

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- Business