A biography for Andrew Neilhasn’t been written yet.
“The Scotsman' is a cheerleader for devolution.”
“Look, I don't want to edit the 'Scotsman.' I have too many other things going on. I have four newspapers to run and two dot com companies going gangbusters.”
“I read more bloggers now than mainstream columnists, because they've got more interesting things to say.”
“I get nervous if the bath is too deep.”
“It's probably the journalist in me, but I'm naturally suspicious about consensus and always feel an impulse to confront it.”
“Many U.S. Sunday papers are monopolies, and their contents can be an extension of the daily.”
“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.”
“WMR is wholly devoted to acquiring and exploiting rights. We're not a production company, and we're not a broadcaster.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You know, Rupert Murdoch I've said is like an Italian when it comes to negotiations.”
“Every house has to have rules - even 'Animal House.'”
“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still have the romantic notion that Scottish schools are superior to English ones; they are at least a generation out of date.”
“Donald Trump's grip on the Republican parties stronger than ever post the Mueller report.”
“If you're on the pull, a hen party gaggle, a gang of rowdy chavs or a group of braying snotty bottys, then Baros is not for you - which means it's just grand for the rest of us.”
“In the highly unlikely event that the 'Telegraph' was to be sold again, then 'The Spectator' doesn't go with it.”
“You don't really appreciate how much you are going to miss your parents. I keep thinking of all the times I should have made the effort to go up and see them but didn't.”
“Muslims are not our enemy.”
“I spend a lot of time in New York.”
“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.”