"Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent."
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"Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that."
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"I don't think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage."
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"I think there's a misconception that I'm opposed to social media."
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"I make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it."
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"The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements."
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"Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter."
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"Maybe we're all a little too desperate these days for a simple formula to explain how our safe world came unhinged. That, as much as anything, may explain one of the more enduring conspiracy theories of the moment, the notion that we are about to send a quarter of a million American soldiers to war for the sake of Israel."
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"I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired."
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"You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating."
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"Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the Internet has made available to journalists. But I think it's also had some effects that are less pleasant. It has chipped away at a sense of privacy and secrecy."
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"I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative. It's the one between zealotry and understanding, between absolute conviction and compromise, between preachers and politicians."
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"Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite."
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"My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question."
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"Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid."
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"My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion."
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"The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions."
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"Most recently, the president's reluctance to offend Senator Rick Santorum - a Catholic theocrat who believes that states should have the power to arrest gay lovers in their bedrooms, or even to criminalize couples who use contraceptives - was an occasion to wonder what, exactly, Mr. Bush was born-again into."
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"A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan."
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"I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, you apply judgment to them."
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