Adrian Anthony Gill Quotes
I don't remember ever stealing things, but I suppose I was endlessly borrowing money off people.
Gill, A. A. Pour Me: A Life. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015.
He was referring to his campaign in 2000 where South Carolina was a very important state in the Republican primary elections and he was campaigning there. At that time, the racist tradition of flying the Confederate Flag, a symbol of slavery and disloyalty to the Union, over the state capitol was a hot political issue with Blacks and some whites outraged and many conservatives who were insistent that the tradition be maintained. McCain, not wanting to offend the conservative who were the core of the voters in the Republican primary, said he did not see anything wrong with the practice when it really offended him as it did most Americans at the time.
Adrian Anthony Gill was a Scottish writer and critic. Best known for food and travel writing, he was The Sunday Times' restaurant reviewer as well as a television critic. He also wrote for Vanity Fair, GQ, and Esquire, and published numerous books. Gill wrote his first piece for Tatler in 1991, and joined The Sunday Times in 1993.