Any affair, by its very nature, is quite dysfunctional.

- Rebekah Brooks

I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer.

- Rebekah Brooks

It’s very difficult to trace convicted paedophiles

- Rebekah Brooks

The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.

- Rebekah Brooks

In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation.

- Rebekah Brooks

We have paid the police for information in the past.

- Rebekah Brooks

Sometimes I suspect most of the media commentariat are suffering from Munchausen syndrome.

- Rebekah Brooks

I was the editor of the News of the World; I was the editor of the Sun and chief executive.

- Rebekah Brooks