Jeremy Paxman Quotes

“Riding is about bending it to your will, and public riding is to demonstrate that authority.”

“The central conundrum of the new mass-media age could be summarised as to how to retain a distance while appearing intimate – for distance without intimacy nourishes public hostility, while intimacy without distance destroys respect.”

“The central difficulty for royalty when it comes to political matters is that they are somehow expected to be in the world and yet not of it, to speak for their people and yet to have nothing to say until someone writes it for them. To be, in short, an empty vessel.”

“They keep the position of head of state out of the hands of those who want it just to gratify their ambition.”