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Quotes by Publisher
"Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset."
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"Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars."
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"I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on."
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"The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money."
"These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off, and security, on top of working fewer hours. They can thrive even in a down economy."
"Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite."
"I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy."
"Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands."
"The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have."
"You carry your country with you, it's part of your baggage."
"I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior."
"I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out."
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"Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests."
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"The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment."
"Always do sober what you said you'd do when you were drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut!"
"The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations."
"Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together."
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"I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people."
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"An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery."
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"Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand."
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"News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising."
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"The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow."
"Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality."
"I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place."
"I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening."
"You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own."
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