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"But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate."
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"You can't argue with religious people, you can't change their mind even if you prove them wrong."
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"No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security."
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"Every candidate goes into every debate hoping that they can own a particular moment."
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"We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate."
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"Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight."
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"In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate."
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"The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides."
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"What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians."
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"Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and I had disagreed on the "roots" of September 11. I rush to agree. Here is what he told his audience at MIT on October 11:Clever of him to have spotted that (his favorite put-down is the preface 'Turning to the facts...') and brave of him to have taken such a lonely position. As he rightly insists, our disagreements are not really political."
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"What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving."
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"It's getting the right person that's the challenge."
Challenge
"But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us."
People
"But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make."
Money
"There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be."
Competition
"Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer."
Journalism
"But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate."
Debate
"I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you."
Job
"I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art."
Art
"We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different."
People
"It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean."
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