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"Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other."
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"Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes for sincere philosophers. They use their enemies to challenge their arguments so that they can know the weak points in their own reasoning and how to argue for and strengthen their position. There are just none like one's enemies to always look for his mistakes and do it harder than anyone else."
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"We are our own worst enemy and make no mistake we are destroying ourselves."
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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."
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"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."
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"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."
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"I hate admitting that my enemies have a point."
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"Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not."
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"To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
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"I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies."
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"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
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"I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about."
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"I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits."
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"That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns."
People

"Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is."
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"It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions."
Fact

"If you really hate George Bush, you don't want to read about his hobbies or that he's nice to his friends or that he's good company at dinner."
Friendship

"I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars."
Time

"Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction."
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"Now I worry. If people ended up liking me, did I do the job wrong? So I decided they didn't end up liking me - they ended up being able to deal with me."
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"If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better."
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