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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."

"People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves."

"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."


"People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too."

"As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!"


"A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books."


"I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak."

"Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing."


"To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death."


"Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic."

"The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers."


"You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do."


"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are."
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"Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal."

"I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up."

"The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people."


"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 may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying."


"I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away."

"A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot."

"He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one."

"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 look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior."

"A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage."


"I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that."
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