Quotes About Transition

During a university gap year in Argentina I got a job presenting for MTV, and in my final year I was doing bits and pieces for them in London and at ITN. Then, when I graduated, MTV asked if I wanted to be a runner. I said: 'Absolutely!'

People who have heard of me have heard of me mostly through presenting and asked, 'Why have you gone into comedy?'

I'm not sure I want to preserve the old ways just for the sake of saying, 'I don't believe in change.'

To preserve my sanity I had to leave England and move to New York.

Soon, the Obama presidency will end, and America will have the chance to turn in a new direction.

After the presidency, there's nowhere else to go in politics.

Were there hour-by-hour countdowns to the end of the Bush presidency? The end of the Obama years? No, definitely not to this extent. Trump's time in office is ending in ignoble fashion.

I will never be known as the former President of Zaire.

France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat.

I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.

President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their team have failed the American people, and that is why their majority will soon be out the door.

President Trump wouldn't stick to politics, so he got to jump into sports. So I feel very comfortable now, moving forward, jumping back and forth. Sports to politics, politics to sports.

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

Occasionally, you see presidents come in and provide a clear change in direction of leadership.

Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years.

I am quite excited that Moi is leaving. Kenyans have changed. We have a free press, and it is no longer a situation of 'follow in my footsteps.'

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

I was a litigation lawyer, following the crowd off the proverbial cliff, when I pressed the pause button.

If ever I leave power, it will be only in conditions of beauty, never under pressure.

To go from working with a group of people in a sketch-comedy show on a small network, where it was all about just creating funny stuff, to being on a network show, and the pressures of that, and getting to know the new people who were involved in it. There was a learning curve for me. But it was an education.

For many people, I was a phase, a part of the period of growing up. People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.

I won't pretend that being booted out the cabinet wasn't painful.

One of the reasons for me that there's no 'Spaced 3' is that I don't think you can pretend to be 26 for ever.

I think in your 30s you can still pretend you're in your 20s, or at least maintain some semblance of youth. Forty is when you've got to stop denying the inevitable.