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.

Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.

If White men were not complaining, it would be an indication we weren't succeeding and making the inroads that we are.

You’re not buying news when you buy The New York Times. You’re buying judgment.

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.

I don't think leadership demands yes or no answers; I think leadership is providing the forum for making the right decision, which doesn't demand unanimity.

David Carr was one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times.

Maybe a deal was possible earlier. And maybe, in retrospect, looking back, you could say this was a moment you could have jumped on. If so, shame on us. I tend to think not.

I wasn't the greatest reporter in the world, but I wasn't starting at zero.

It's a lie that matches his desire.

Believe it or not, you and your enemies want many of the same things and share values.

What do you feel like you SHOULD be doing instead of writing? IF you have an answer, then you have guilt. The "should" of life are always linked to guilt.

Without duty life is soft and boneless it cannot hold itself together.

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.

There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.

The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way of compounding difficulties.

Establish liberty on a rock of brass.

I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.

There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.