"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."

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Source : "The Obama Administration and the Press" by Leonard Downie Jr., cpj.org. October 10, 2013.

Leonard Downie, Jr.

#War Quotes #Government Quotes #Editors Quotes

“it seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take us out of it again just as folks 'ave learned to know us a bit and find us useful.”
“If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.”

Source : Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.39, tredition
“Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."”
“It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.”
“That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.”
“To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.”
“Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you're too self-conscious about it, you make mistakes.”

Source : Christopher Nolan, Jonah Nolan (2010). “Inception: The Shooting Script”, p.14, Insight Editions
“Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path.”

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