Quotes by Jonathan Dimbleby

• 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.
• I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.
• I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat.
• I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.
• I was disappointed not to be able to interview Mr. Clinton. I met him two years ago. I was looking forward to talking with him about issues from Africa to terrorism.
• I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.
• 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.
• I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.
• That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.
• 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.
• The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.
• The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.
• 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.
• The long, forensic interview really matters.
• The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales.
• 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.
• Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters.
• Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.