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"Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is."
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"The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given."
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"It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality."
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"You can't get much more liberal than John Kerry is. I mean, he's my candidate, but, I mean, come on."
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"The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds."
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"I've always been a liberal and I've always had strong socialist leanings."
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"Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear."
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"To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree."
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"I am certainly a liberal."
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"The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives."
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"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today."
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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."
Problems

"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."
Evil

"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."
Friendship

"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."
Policy

"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."
Accountability

"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."
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