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Quotes by Publisher


"Married life is an existence with bars around it."

"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."

"Man does not bring to God's altar the stuff of nature in itself, in its initial structure, but something he has made and molded out of nature for the nourishment and the inspiration of men."

"Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own."


"If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it."

"Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted."

"I buy newspapers to make money to buy more newspapers to make more money."

"In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all."

"I'd like to see an arrested growth of development. You can't stop it, but it's important we do something about the developers having the upper hand."

"I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free."

"I've got money so I'm a Conservative."

"Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight."

"A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it."

"The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money."

"What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples."

"There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows."

"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."


"Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all."

"I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy."


"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."

"Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now."

"Few there are that will endure a true friend."

"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."

"As for editorial content, that's the stuff you separate the ads with."

"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."
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