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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."


"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."


"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."


"Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach."


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


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


"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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