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

I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean.

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

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

That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me.

If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.

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.

Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction.

That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.

Now I worry. If people ended up liking me, did I do the job wrong? So I decided they didn't end up liking me - they ended up being able to deal with me.

I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.

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

I think on civilian casualties they could do more. It's actually something I've discussed with the editors involved. They're aware of it, and I'm hopeful that there will be more reporting on that.

The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing.

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

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

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

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

Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other.

I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about.

I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world.

Unkindness is quite a major sin.

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.

The Obama administration appears to regard intelligence leaks and briefings more or less like briefings by the Democratic National Committee or White House flack Jay Carney. You use any information at hand, classified or not, and you spin it any way you like, fairly or not.

No athlete ever ends his or her career the way you want to. We all want to play forever. But it doesn't work that way. Accepting the end gracefully is part of being a professional athlete.

Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.

You have to surround yourself with people who love you and want the best for you.

A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.

All I can say to the young players is, enjoy every moment of it. Just enjoy every moment of it. Your career goes by very quickly.

The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly to form right decisions.

Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense of wonder and excitement.

Open government is, within limits, an ideal that we all share. U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed it when he took office in January 2009.

Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide.

Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?

Starting your own business isn't just a job - it's a way of life.

My sister was the inspiration for the character, the good qualities instilled in the character. The initial inspiration was there, but Stargirl has taken on a life of her own. She's her own character now.

Food is a very sensitive subject for so many people.

Any time you have someone's first-hand account of the sheer terror that ISIS can provoke... that's powerful.

Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to.

It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting from the passions and whims of the government rather than from the law, just because they have the power to do so.

I like to think of myself as a romantic person!

All things are ready, if our minds be so.

It may be something to do with my having been to a girls' school, but I'm far more comfortable making male friendships than female ones. My friends tend to be men and their significant others.

My family's from Eastern Europe.