Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.

If you really hate George Bush, you don't want to read about his hobbies or that he's nice to his friends or that he's good company at dinner.

I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.

I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.

The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true.

But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper.

Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park.

I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.

Education isn't for getting a job. It's about developing yourself as a human being.

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

All the money in the world can't buy you back good health.

Every new generation of LGBT Americans needs to be inspired by leaders who come out - whether in Congress, the nonprofit sector, the NFL, or corner offices of Fortune 100 companies.

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.

From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress - I never dreamed I'd have the courage. But an active, volatile woman like she was.

You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour.

A dream dirty and bruised is better than no dream at all.

Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary.