I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.

The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.

Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.

All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own, ' said Birbal, 'and so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness.

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.

It's very nice to be able to be who you are.

I worship the ground Paul Ryan walks on.

I study the Bible and spend time on the Internet.

Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into the eternal present.

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.

Before you pledge your undying love to someone, make them promise they won't die.

Drowning in the sea of love Where everyone would love to drown.