Thomas Watson, Jr.

If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

#disaster #ends #generally #you

I've been a minister and I know how cautious you have to be. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

#cautious #how #i #know #minister

I've got to be careful what I say but Glenn Mulcaire was a blagger and a phone hacker. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

#careful #glenn #got #hacker #i

It's the job of a special advisor to be the eyes and ears of a minister and it's the job of a corporate lobbyist to represent the best interests of their organization. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

#best #best interests #corporate #ears #eyes

The future regulatory arrangements for the newspaper industry need to be done in a much calmer deliberative way, in slower time when we've got beyond this media firestorm. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

#beyond #calmer #done #future #got

The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

#last #newspapers #politicians #running #thing

The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

#curious #i #i love #just #links

The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

#bent #britain #corporation #effectively #influence