Quotes About Phone Hacking

#1. I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there?

Michael Moore

#2. Something very worrying has been going on at Scotland Yard. We now know that in dealing with the phone-hacking affair at the 'News of the World,' they cut short their original inquiry; suppressed evidence; misled the public and the press; concealed information and broke the law. Why?

Nick Davies

#3. You know, fate intervened. I went on to the DCMS committee to have a quieter life before the phone hacking scandal broke, and then ended up investigating the company that had libelled me previously when I was a minister.

Tom A. Watson

#4. Talking about your troubles is no good. Eighty percent of your friends don't care and the rest are glad.

Tommy Lasorda

#5. Kate Middleton has a nice silhouette and she is the right girl for that boy. I like that kind of woman, I like romantic beauties. On the other hand, her sister struggles. I don't like the sister's face. She should only show her back.

Karl Lagerfeld

#6. Don't use a pick-up line.

Jenny Slate

#7. A blast, an acceleration, the distillate, the spirit, the history, the weaponized soul of convulsive beauty went critical.

China Mieville

#8. I am a frighteningly thorough person.

Daniel Radcliffe

#9. With love you can transform inner sparks of possibility into flames of reality.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.

Michel Faber

#11. Nice mix of Tory MPs saying this issue shouldn't be used for petty political pointscoring, & Tory MPs trying to score petty political points.

Andy Zaltzman

#12. Genghis Miliband roars up to the despatch box like a caged donkey.

Andy Zaltzman

#13. As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more.

Amy Chua

#14. I realise I'm behind on this but Rebekah Brooks was married to Ross Kemp of Gangs fame?! And she assaulted him? That explains so much.

Mandy Wiener

#15. Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

Chuck Palahniuk

#16. The British version of 'Shit My Dad Says' is really entertaining.

Jeremy Scahill

#17. A jacketless Murdoch resumes his quiz, brushing off the assault as 'an overexcited autograph-hunter wanting to have his shaving foam signed.

Andy Zaltzman

#18. His lover was a born entertainer who liked to kill things. How he wasn't in a psychiatric ward or on a Most Wanted list somewhere was anyone's guess.

Abigail Roux

#19. Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.

Jonah Goldberg

#20. Phone phreaking is a type of hacking that allows you to explore the telephone network by exploiting the phone systems and phone company employees.

Kevin Mitnick

#21. Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.

Steve Coogan

#22. Quite a lot is required of writers these days in terms of, if not promoting the work, then being a representative of the work. It's a difficult thing, really.

Sarah Hall

#23. I don't do group sex. I don't like being in a roomful of all my homeys giving high-fives and yelling, 'Switch!'

Tyrese Gibson

#24. To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?

Andy Zaltzman