Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I was a reluctant convert, and I am by no means a zealot. But the evidence is compelling: to write off wind-power is either ill-informed or dishonest.”

“Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.”

“The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market.”

“I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat.”

“I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.”

“While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.”

“You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.”

“I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for.”

“It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night.”

“Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong.”