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"People can say anything they want to. If they don't want to get the news from me, get it from somebody else. It's not something I'm going to worry about, I'm sorry."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."
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"As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse."

"Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist."

"On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there."

"I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody."

"We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat."

"My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been."

"If people want bells and whistles and all of that, there are bells and whistles available. If they don't want bells and whistles there are places to go where they are not available."

"I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four."
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