Quotes from Katty Kay

I have wardrobes full of dresses and tops I only ever wear for TV and if I limited myself to only tops with sleeves, the choice would be even narrower.

History reminds us, however, that good doesn't always prevail. Not against Russia anyway.

I've always prided myself on embracing the concept that almost no-one is indispensible, certainly not a news reporter.

The United States is a country founded on the ideal of freedom and equality, values later underlined by key historical figures like Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King.

About seven years ago, I was anchoring a BBC news program and somebody else was brought in to do it. I had that moment of thinking, 'My God, Im a complete failure. Ill never work again.'

People are far too wrapped up in their own lives to care about what's happening to other people. Even if it is a moment's hot gossip, it's only that - a moment.

But what attracts me to the study of confidence is that it is something women can address themselves, individually and immediately.

Politicians live in mortal terror of ever saying they are sorry about anything, because that would suggest they have been wrong. It is often a trait of powerful people not to want to be seen to back down.

Working men, in particular, face a world they did not expect, jobs are hard to find and pay badly meaning they often can't provide single-handedly for their families, as their fathers and grandfathers did. That alone causes a loss of pride.

I grew up in the Middle East where my mother, who also worked as a journalist, had to wear long dresses with long sleeves every time she left the house.

Im good at getting information and synthesizing it. Its not that I doubt myself on that. Its, do you have the Ph.D. first-class brain or do you have the really good second-class brain? Because I came from a very academic culture, I always slightly felt I wasnt in the very top group.

Weight is an intensely personal, sensitive and often tricky issue for women and it is something women talk about a lot among themselves, usually with empathy and support.

There is a lot of research out there, which shows that when women behave like men they are penalized for it. Both socially and professionally.

Ive lived and worked in developing countries so Im particularly interested in helping women in oppressive societies. Our problems can pale in comparison to theirs, the more we can do to empower them, the better off all women will be.

Boris Johnson and Donald Trump appeal to the heart not the head, they offer simple solutions in a time of complex problems.

I read the news every night to millions of people around the world. It doesnt test my confidence.

Europeans have long had a complicated and somewhat insecure relationship with the US, part admiration, part jealousy, part irritation.

Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, the leader of the Leave campaign, have tapped into a similar public mood of disgruntlement. On both sides of the Atlantic, a lot of people feel they've been handed a bad deal.

There are plenty who believe that Britain pays too much into the EU and gets too little back and that the UK will be better off when it is unshackled from the weight of the troubled EU economies.

Learn Spanish and realize that youll fail, go for that risk assignment at work, try building a relationship with that new client, raise your hand in that meeting to ask that question.

Perhaps people with no experience will be unfettered by protocol, history and existing structures and will be freer to cut through red tape.

Thanks to my new job, I got a front row seat. I crossed the country covering the race, first between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and then between Obama and McCain. It was the political story of a lifetime.

I like trying new things. You only have one life.

The reasons America isnt liked in various countries isnt uniform. The reasons can be different.