Once upon a time, America was a self-reliant John Wayne society where a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do. Now, America has become an over-lawyered society where nobody takes responsibility for mistakes because it is more profitable to claim victimhood and reach for a lawyer. Gavin Esler Read Quote
What mattered in the cold war was weight – how big are your missiles? How heavy are your tanks? What matters in globalisation is speed. How fast is your modem? How good are you communications? Gavin Esler Read Quote
Leaders of organisations, political parties and large businesses frequently fail to talk in a straight and entirely truthful fashion. Gavin Esler Read Quote
Public displays of puritanical religiosity mask the private perversions of the real Washington behind closed doors. Gavin Esler Read Quote
A Jethro Tull album was – along with Cream and Led Zeppelin – one of the first I ever bought. Gavin Esler Read Quote
As journalists we are sceptical by nature, but there are some things you take on trust. Gavin Esler Read Quote
I have my mother’s nose and my father’s bone structure, which I’ve passed on to my children. My eldest daughter and my mother, when she was young, could be sisters. Gavin Esler Read Quote
In years of interviewing presidents, prime ministers and chief executives all over the world, I can remember only a handful of times in which a leader has said: ‘I don’t know’ in answer to a question. Perhaps everyone I have ever interviewed knows everything about everything, but I doubt it. Gavin Esler Read Quote
A political and economic system that only works for a small group at the top is a system that needs to change. Gavin Esler Read Quote
