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"I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf."
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"It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me."
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"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."
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"As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years."
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"If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true."
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"I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards."
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"I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events."
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"A journalist's job is to collect information," Ovid said to Pete. "Nope," Pete said. "That's what we do. It's not what they do." Dellarobia was unready to be pushed out of the conversation just like that. "Then what do you think the news people drive their Jeeps all the way out here for?" "To shore up the prevailing view of their audience and sponsors." "Pete takes a dim view of his fellow humans," Ovid said. "He prefers insects. Dellarobia turned her chair halfway around to face Pete, scraping noisily against the cement floor. "You're saying people only tune in to news they know they're going to agree with?" "Bingo," said Pete."
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"Journalism is literature in a hurry."
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"Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book."
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"In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right."
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"My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do."
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"The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back."
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"I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people."
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"I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them."
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"Everybody expects that their vote's going to count."
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"If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress."
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"It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money."
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"I think the federal government really should be supporting Louisiana and ensuring that every person from that area has an opportunity to vote on what will occur in the area."
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"I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf."
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"I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities."
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