No two wars are identical.
Kate Adie

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

People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.
Kate Adie

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

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