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

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.

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

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

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.

The truth never hurts worse than finding out someone you care about lied to you.

The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking.

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

I compare the pressure of a golf shot with making an extra point in basketball. The player starts from a full stop, and that rim doesn't move.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

And what's the Internet without the rick-roll?

It was one thing to go into battle with confidence, another to believe the foe so easily defeated.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min?

No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find himself out of step.

Favourite stadium? I have good memories of my CL debut at Old Trafford, spectacular atmosphere. The Theatre of Dreams, as they say.