Leonard Downie, Jr. famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The more competition and the more voices - that's why I love bloggers and anything else the Internet can produce in the way of new news voices.
-- Leonard Downie, Jr.

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In the Obama administration's Washington, government officials are increasingly afraid to talk to the press. The administration's war on leaks and other efforts to control information are the most aggressive I've seen since the Nixon administration, when I was one of the editors involved in The Washington Post's investigation of Watergate.
-- Leonard Downie, Jr.

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The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.
Whilst there's a competition still on we're still a chance,
I want all the gold that there is out there â€” everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.
This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.
Every guild and trade has its own...private patriotism, which makes it resent all rebellion from within and all competition or criticism from without. ...Vested Interests. The manufacture of optical glass...
During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk
By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and to be able to incline the balance of European competitions in this part of the world as our interest may dictate.
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
The whole world is tense. Everybody gets the international news. Theres been no American comedy at all that even remotely addresses the subject in any way. My goal isnt to solve the worlds problems. My character wasnt even able to do his assignment. But the premise of wanting to find out about somebody -- other than the stuff that the CIA will tell you -- theres no hope unless we do that.
We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people out there struggling to change things to be fairer, freer, more democratic, less corrupt.

Leonard Downie, Jr. famous quotes

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