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"I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense."
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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."

"Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction."

"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."

"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."

"I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about."

"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."

"If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better."

"I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism."
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