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"The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do."
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"I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job."

"A lot of guys spend their lives saying no because it's an easier way to keep your job."

"If kids come to educators and teachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important."

"After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years."

"It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays. That's what I did."
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"To call something an 'enhanced interrogation technique' doesn't alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it. You know, it's almost the moral equivalent of saying that rape is an enhanced seduction technique."


"I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming."


"Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation."


"More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book."


"People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media."


"My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went."


"There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page."


"My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you."
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