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"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."
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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."

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

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

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

"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."

"I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean."

"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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