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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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"Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person."
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"Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours."
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"I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent."
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"I loved playing and I was actually working two jobs."
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"No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job."
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"A job is a very healthy thing to do."
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"The greatest teacher I know is the job itself."
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"I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony."
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"I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club."
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"An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful."
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"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."
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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."
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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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"People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media."
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"I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming."
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"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."
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"In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen."
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"I have the necessary lack of tact."
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"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."
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"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."
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