Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Politics is compromise.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life when they come to Los Angeles. They are looking for a place where they can be free, where they can do things they couldn't do anywhere else.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.