Michael Buerk Quotes

Women make 80% of the buying decisions in this country. Even if they are not running the boardrooms, they at least dictate the business agenda. And the media, of course, is another thing. - Michael Buerk

Women have confused equality with independence. Equality is a very good and desirable thing [compared with] independence, which is often rather notional and theoretical. - Michael Buerk

Oh yes - of course they set the agenda. Could you imagine a Clement Atlee becoming prime minister now? You have to see the way that politicians, in order to succeed, have to be emotionally available, as opposed to coldly rational. - Michael Buerk

Life is now being lived in accordance with women's rules. - Michael Buerk

It was a curious experience... I felt nothing, and I felt odd feeling nothing. Absolutely no emotion whatsoever. I found him slightly pathetic. He said: 'I have waited a long time for this moment.' I replied: 'Well, you might have sent me a postcard in the meantime.' - Michael Buerk

I did say that women increasingly set the agenda in business, in politics, in the media, in society at large, that women's values are now considered superior to men's values. - Michael Buerk

God, I'm going to have to grow a beard and hide. - Michael Buerk

[Would you, I ask, be offended to be called a chauvinist?] Well, I wouldn't like it... I do help about the house too. I think so; Christine probably doesn't. And I always put down the lavatory seat. - Michael Buerk

[The couple divorced, the captain agreed to divorce his first wife, and then he and Betty remarried and moved to Canada.] I have two wedding certificates for my parents' marriage... They were married twice - by the same registrar in the same register office. The first says that my father is a widower; the second that he is divorced. - Michael Buerk

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