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Quotes by Editor
"Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine."
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"Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism; the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young."
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"But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper."
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"I've been campaigning for 17 of the last 24 months. I'm ready to legislate and not campaign."
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"Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody."
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"Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there."
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"I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems."
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"Intellectuals are too sentimental for me."
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"The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages."
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"We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury."
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"I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense."
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"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity."
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"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."
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"Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people."
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"I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean."
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"Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired."
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"There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues."
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"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."
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"We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right."
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"Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement."
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"Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction."
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"An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous."
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"In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism."
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"Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality."
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"A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around."
War,
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"There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions."
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"Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too."
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"Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other."
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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."
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"A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him."
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"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot."
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"Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy."
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"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."
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"The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient."
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"More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works."
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