Kate Adie Quotes

When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship. - Kate Adie

Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse. - Kate Adie

Trying to be as positive as he could about it, he said to me, 'I have to tell you, Kateit was a Harrods bag'. - Kate Adie

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it. - Kate Adie

Somewhere in the twentieth century we stopped regarding children as property and started seeing them as people. - Kate Adie

On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information. - Kate Adie

Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds. - Kate Adie

Not so much deliberate as, I think, instinctive. There is a right time to go looking. Some do it when they are very young, others take a few years. That's why you should never be pressurised by other people. There's a time for everyone. A lot of things probably come together subconsciously, and we say, 'I'm going to do it now.' - Kate Adie

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