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"I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense."
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"The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic."
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"But I came from a conservative Republican background."
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"All great peoples are conservative."
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"The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right."
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"I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage."
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"I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it."
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"A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now."
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"Bush is no conservative."
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"I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up."
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"A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt."
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"But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper."
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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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"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."
People

"I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean."
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"That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me."
Skepticism

"I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism."
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"I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars."
Time

"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."
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"The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing."
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"I think on civilian casualties they could do more. It's actually something I've discussed with the editors involved. They're aware of it, and I'm hopeful that there will be more reporting on that."
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