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We run all kinds of ads, as long as they are clearly marked as advertising when there's ever a question. I think advertising is advertising. If it's 100 percent clear what it is, then, with certain exceptions, I can live with that. (David Remnick)
We have to do our jobs better, more tirelessly and stop whining about it. View quote
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I don't think there will be fascism in America, but we have to do everything we can to fight against it. View quote
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You have to understand that a lot of the working class is not white. View quote
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Democratic institutions, even in the oldest operating democracy in the world, are anything but perfect. View quote
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Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian. View quote
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I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later. View quote
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Prediction is a low form of journalism. View quote
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My deep sense of alarm has to do with Donald Trump's seeming lack of fealty to constitutionalism. View quote
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Donald Trump lies with astonishing frequency and in stunning volume. View quote
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The internet is very democratizing in some ways, but it also has other effects. (David Remnick)
We begin to inhabit oppositional and rarely intersecting mental universes having to do with ideology and fact and non-fact and news and non-news. View quote
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As journalists, we need to find every avenue to distribute our work, and try to be so good that we become increasingly more influential than before. View quote
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I would love to have a stable, productive relationship with Russia. View quote
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There's nothing wrong with creating jobs. What's wrong is to seed the illusion that you will magically bring back the economy of 1970, that you will reopen coal mines. View quote
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Maybe Santa Claus is real. Here's the problem: reality. View quote
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Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time. View quote
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You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long. View quote
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A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply. View quote
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Reform is not a period of retreat. View quote
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I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one. (David Remnick)
I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since. View quote
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