Quotes from this week's news

‘That’s awkward’

Megyn Kelly from Fox News, on Fox pundit Karl Rove’s refusal to accept that Barack Obama had won in Ohio

‘The white establishment is the minority’

US Republican pundit and sore loser Bill O’Reilly

‘The world is laughing at us’

Romney-backing billionaire Donald Trump

‘Hysteria must be avoided’

Former News of the World deputy editor Neil Wallis on the child abuse scandal. In 2001 the paper published photos of sex offenders, leading to attacks on innocent people

‘He needed to bring on some new, young talent’

Former Tory energy minister Charles Hendry on why he was demoted by Cameron—to be replaced by an older man

‘There were some wetties who were put off by the sight. Among their number was the present prime minister’

Bruce Anderson on Cameron’s failure to eat stag’s liver at a posh hunting do in the 1990s. Squeamish Dave hid the ostentatious offal “under some rabbit food garnish”