Quotes from Andrew Neil

I get nervous if the bath is too deep.

Now, I bow to nobody when it comes to estimating the influence of 'This Week.'

You have to live and breathe Scotland if you're 'Scotsman' editor.

The sucking sound of capital being pulled out of Europe and into East Asia is almost deafening.

Memo to self: never again try to travel by train in Britain on a Sunday.

The Business' has been an editorial success, with a core audience that loves it. But commercially it has never been a success as a newspaper. It just gets crowded out on a Sunday.

The Sunday paper is an odd British cultural tradition.

Ever since I left the 'Sunday Times' there has been a group of scribes waiting for me to fall on my face, and having a go at my commercial record, looking to pick holes in it.

Don't forget that Rupert Murdoch has always regarded the Op Ed pages of 'The Wall Street Journal' - as he's said to me - as a cup of strong caffeine that gets you going in the morning and tells you what to think.

The Scotsman' is a cheerleader for devolution.

The English, in their ignorance, still have the romantic notion that Scottish schools are superior to English ones; they are at least a generation out of date.

When I went up to Glasgow University in 1967, student life was dominated by 13-hour debates on Fridays, when one of the student political clubs would form the 'government' for the day and attempt to push through a piece of legislation, which the other clubs either supported or opposed.

I travelled through the night in a bus with the Kentucky Tea Party en route to a massive rally in Washington. For the most part I found them decent, self-reliant, regular Americans who feared the American Dream was now over, not just for them but for their children and grandchildren.

It's probably the journalist in me, but I'm naturally suspicious about consensus and always feel an impulse to confront it.

I don't even read 'the Sun' and it's my job to read everything that's politically important. I think that's a symbol of the declining power of the mainstream media.

If I had a pound for every former editor who hadn't cut the mustard advising me what to do, I'd be a very rich man.

As class barriers tumbled and Britain became a more meritocratic society, young, well-educated Scots were best placed to exploit the new social mobility.

The English are a tolerant bunch and, outside elements of the London elite, never much minded the rise of the Scottish Raj: after all, we were British, well-educated, reasonably cultivated and spoke with clear, classless accents.

With sad, depressing predictability, the children of today's underclass become tomorrow's criminals and dropouts.

The only exception to the demise/struggles of the European centre-left is Macron, in French presidential and parliamentary elections 2017.

My favourite sport's cricket and one of the key things in cricket is to know when to declare.

The Tea Party isn't out to be a third force in American politics. Instead, it has infiltrated the Republicans and remoulded them in its own image.

Not all Republicans in the class of 2010 owe their seats to the Tea Party. But many do.

Like all populist movements, the Tea Party will eventually peter out. It won't succeed in returning America to the minimalist state of the 19th century.