Quotes by Andrew Rosenthal - Page 1

I read on my iPad. But honestly, I prefer print.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Print
Ipad
Copy Quote
If something is presented as a fact, it has to be correct.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Correct
Presented
Copy Quote
Free speech is one of the founding principles of our republic.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Founding
Free Speech
Principles
Republic
Copy Quote
Joe Cocker never sounded forced. Crazy, perhaps, but not forced.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Forced
Joe
Copy Quote
It's interesting how powerful, in fact, the printed page still is.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Printed
Page
Copy Quote
My father was not prone to worship, but he worshiped Arthur Sulzberger.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Arthur
Worship
Prone
Copy Quote
Datelines are kind of an anachronism. It's a little bit of an affectation.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Affectation
Copy Quote
I like to say that a 'Times' editorial presents a strong opinion based on reality.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Editorial
Presents
Copy Quote
Charles Blow's memoir 'Fire Shut Up in My Bones' was a breathtaking piece of writing.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Blow
Bones
Breathtaking
Memoir
Shut Up
Charles
Shut
Copy Quote
My father, A. M. Rosenthal, edited the 'Times' for nearly 20 years and worked at the paper for many more.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Edited
Nearly
Copy Quote
Bill Clinton, who packs his own star power, has been a big draw as well as a big drag on his wife's campaign.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Clinton
Drag
Packs
Bill Clinton
Campaign
Copy Quote
Music was transmitted over the airwaves in the '60s - for free, even - astonishingly enough without Bit Torrent.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Airwaves
Torrent
Transmitted
Copy Quote
Ultimately, presidential campaigns are - or at least should be - about the candidates, not their spouses or surrogates.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Campaigns
Candidates
Presidential
Spouses
Copy Quote
Opinion pages have an impact on public debate, and they sometimes reveal things the government would rather have kept quiet.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Debate
Impact
Opinion
Pages
Quiet
Reveal
Copy Quote
'NYT Opinion' offers our readers what we think are the most stimulating and interesting points of view you can find anywhere.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Offers
Stimulating
Readers
Copy Quote
The columnists have a very personal relationship with their readers, and the readers deserve to hear directly from the columnists.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Deserve
Directly
Personal Relationship
Readers
Copy Quote
The big thing in favor of doing an editorial on the front page is that it would be a powerful signal of how concerned we are about guns.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Big Thing
Guns
Editorial
Favor
Front Page
Page
Signal
Copy Quote
Congress passed the deeply flawed Patriot Act and authorized the invasion of Iraq. It even gave its retroactive approval to warrantless wiretapping.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Approval
Flawed
Invasion
Patriot
Patriot Act
Authorized
Passed
Copy Quote
Some grocery stores began using electronic scanners as early as 1976, and the devices have been in general use in American supermarkets for a decade.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Devices
General
Began
Decade
Electronic
Grocery
Copy Quote
The 24/7 nature of online debate, on the web and across social media, has allowed for more vibrant discussion of the opinions we publish - and your own.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Debate
Discussion
Social Media
Opinions
Vibrant
Web
Copy Quote
All of our columnists have areas of interest and expertise that they will return to frequently, but the subject matter of any given column is up to them.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Expertise
Return
Subject Matter
Column
Frequently
Copy Quote
The editorial page is where you'll find our opinions, while the letters columns and the space for Op-Ed contributors are a forum for debate and discussion.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Columns
Debate
Discussion
Letters
Editorial
Forum
Op-Ed
Opinions
Page
Copy Quote
One of the hard truths about the new digital world is that we have to be prepared to acknowledge when an experiment is not going to work, and to take action.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Acknowledge
Be Prepared
Digital
Digital World
Prepared
Work World New
Experiment
Truths
Copy Quote
The Apple IIc, with its 128KB of RAM, 125KB floppy drive, word processor, and spreadsheet application, did everything I could imagine a computer doing at the time.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Apple
Ram
Copy Quote
I read 'The Hobbit' but not a single one of the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy. I had to lie about this pretty much all through high school. I still say it apologetically.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Rings
Hobbit
Lord Of The Rings
Trilogy
Copy Quote
When I was young, I colored in the line drawings in vintage editions of the Oz books that had been handed down through generations in my family. This was a bad thing to do.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Generations
Vintage
Bad Thing
Colored
Drawings
Handed
Oz
Copy Quote
The IIc was Apple's first crack at a 'portable' computer, which it sort of was if you didn't mind a 7.5 pound weight, plus monitor, external floppy drive, and all the cables.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Plus
Apple
External
Crack
Monitor
Portable
Pound
Copy Quote
Even the king of phrasing, Frank Sinatra, did not do as well as Joe Cocker with his reinterpretation of 'Something' by George Harrison, which Sinatra called the greatest love song ever written.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Frank
George
Joe
Sinatra
Copy Quote
I have sometimes thought the power of computers had exceeded our ability to use them, but Mr. Jobs and his team kept giving us devices that made indispensable things easier in ways you never thought of.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Computers
Devices
Indispensable
Mr
Exceeded
Copy Quote
New Yorkers were grateful when Donald J. Trump finished ahead of schedule and under budget in renovating the Wollman Memorial Rink, where the city had spent six years and $12 million trying to produce ice.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Grateful
Ice
Memorial
Trump
Budget
Donald
Rink
Schedule
Copy Quote
The fact of the matter is, particularly when covering a campaign, which is a very high-speed story, it's incredibly unusual for the reporter to be in the same place as the dateline when the story is filed.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Covering
High Speed
Unusual
Campaign
Reporter
Copy Quote
In many campaigns, one candidate or another is asked to answer for comments he or she made in the past. The answer is usually gibberish - 'That was a long time ago,' or 'I was trying to say something else.'
Andrew Rosenthal /
Campaigns
Long Time Ago
Time Past Long
Candidate
Comments
Time Long Past
He Or She
In The Past
Something Else
Copy Quote
The United States lost the nuclear-powered submarine Thresher 100 miles east of Cape Cod in 1963, and the submarine Scorpion sank in 1968 in more than 10,000 feet of water 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Miles
Cape
Southwest
Submarine
Copy Quote
The American system of civilian control of the military recognizes that soldiers' attention must be fixed on winning battles and staying alive, and that the fog of war can sometimes obscure the rule of law.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Alive
Attention
Fixed
Fog
Military
Obscure
Rule Of Law
Staying
Winning
Battles
Civilian
Rule
Soldiers
System
Copy Quote
I long ago lost track of the number of times the Obama administration has assured everyone that its vacuum-cleaner approach to electronic surveillance does not threaten the privacy or the rights of Americans.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Administration
Assured
Privacy
Surveillance
Track
Electronic
Obama Administration
Threaten
Copy Quote
An Op-Ed by a Republican criticizing the Democrats, or vice versa, is easy to come by and not that interesting. But a Democrat who takes issue with his or her party, or a Republican who does that, is more valuable.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Democrat
Valuable
Vice Versa
Criticizing
Democrats
Op-Ed
Versa
Vice
Copy Quote
Columnists must make sure that when they describe an event, they are being accurate in their description. When they quote someone, they are required to do so accurately. Errors that are made must be corrected openly and quickly.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Accurate
Corrected
Describe
Event
Openly
Quote
Required
Copy Quote
It's getting hard to keep up with all of the news from Washington - witch hunts, conspiracy theories and Republicans tearing each other apart over who is ideologically pure and who is apostate. It's a real set of carnival sideshows.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Conspiracy
Pure
Witch
Carnival
Republicans
Hunt
Tearing
Theories
Copy Quote
There are so many reasons to mark the passing of the great Joe Cocker - as many songs as he wrote, recorded and performed in his remarkable concerts. For me, Cocker was also the only performer who successfully covered and even improved on The Beatles.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Concerts
Covered
Passing
Remarkable
Great Me Who
Improved
Joe
Successfully
Copy Quote
The right of free speech cannot be parceled out based on whether we want to hear what the speaker has to say or whether we agree with those views. It means, quite often, tolerating the expression of views that we find distasteful, perhaps even repugnant.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Agree
Distasteful
Free Speech
Views
Speaker
Repugnant
Tolerating
Copy Quote
I can still remember the first time I heard a Beatles song. It was the fall of 1964, my second year in an American school after my family moved back from overseas, and I was standing on the corner of 64th street and First Avenue with my friend Larry Campbell.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Larry
Standing
Avenue
Campbell
Corner
Family Time Remember
My Friend
Overseas
Copy Quote
Editorials are, obviously, pieces of opinion journalism. They are not intended to be dispassionate, balanced accountings of a news situation or issue. They present a strong and strongly argued position and do not necessarily present or even take into account the opposing position.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Balanced
Dispassionate
Journalism
Opposing
Account
Argued
Intended
Strongly
Copy Quote
If a columnist writes that something happened on a certain date, or that the government spent a certain amount of money on something, or that a specific number of people have died in the war in Iraq, to pick a few examples, it is his or her responsibility to make certain that information is correct.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Date
Columnist
Correct
Examples
Copy Quote
When I heard the news that Steve Jobs had died, my mind flashed back to 1985, when I began my love affair with computers. I was stationed in Moscow for The Associated Press, and I ordered an Apple IIc - by Telex - from a department store in Helsinki, Finland. They express-shipped it to me, a month later, by train.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Computers
Affair
Department
Finland
Love Affair
Train
Love Mind Me
Apple
Month
Associated
Department Store
Ordered
Steve
Copy Quote
For nearly three years, President Obama devoted a great deal of effort to finding compromises with Congressional Republicans. That was futile, in my view, since those Republicans had made it clear from the day he was inaugurated in 2009 that their plan was to oppose everything he wanted and then paint him as a failed president.
Andrew Rosenthal /
Devoted
Paint
President Obama
Nearly
Compromises
Congressional
Failed
Republicans
Futile
Great Deal
Inaugurated
Oppose
Copy Quote

Related Authors

George Bernard Shaw
Playwright
Saturday, Jul 26, 1856
Thursday, Nov 02, 1950
Sun Tzu
Strategist
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosopher
Stephen Hawking
Physicist
Thursday, Jan 08, 1942
W. Edwards Deming
Statistician
Sunday, Oct 14, 1900
Monday, Dec 20, 1993
Jean De La Bruyere
Wednesday, Aug 16, 1645
Thursday, May 10, 1696
Albert Camus
Author
Friday, Nov 07, 1913
Monday, Jan 04, 1960
Vincent Van Gogh
Painter
Wednesday, Mar 30, 1853
Tuesday, Jul 29, 1890
Dr. Seuss
Writer
Wednesday, Mar 02, 1904
Tuesday, Sep 24, 1991
Yogi Berra
Baseball Manager
Tuesday, May 12, 1925
Tuesday, Sep 22, 2015
Kobe Bryant
Basketball Player
Wednesday, Aug 23, 1978
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Poet
Saturday, Aug 05, 1809
Thursday, Oct 06, 1892
Theodore Roosevelt
26Th U.s. President
Wednesday, Oct 27, 1858
Monday, Jan 06, 1919
Elon Musk
Investor
Monday, Jun 28, 1971
Leonardo Da Vinci
Painter
Thursday, Apr 15, 1452
Friday, May 02, 1519

View All Quotes

Top Authors

Marcus Aurelius
Roman Emperor
Saturday, Apr 26, 0121
Friday, Mar 17, 0180
Thomas Sowell
Economist
Monday, Jun 30, 1930
Julius Caesar
Roman Dictator
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Dalai Lama
Saturday, Jul 06, 1935
John Locke
Philosopher
Sunday, Aug 29, 1632
Tuesday, Oct 28, 1704
Oprah Winfrey
Media Proprietor
Friday, Jan 29, 1954
Jordan Peterson
Psychologist
Walt Disney
Animator
Thursday, Dec 05, 1901
Thursday, Dec 15, 1966
Ronald Reagan
40Th US President
Monday, Feb 06, 1911
Saturday, Jun 05, 2004
Helen Keller
Author
Sunday, Jun 27, 1880
Saturday, Jun 01, 1968
Napoleon Hill
Author
Friday, Oct 26, 1883
Sunday, Nov 08, 1970
Nelson Mandela
Former President Of South Africa
Thursday, Jul 18, 1918
Thursday, Dec 05, 2013
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34Th U.s. President
Tuesday, Oct 14, 1890
Friday, Mar 28, 1969
Donald Trump
45Th President Of The United States
Friday, Jun 14, 1946
Albert Camus
Author
Friday, Nov 07, 1913
Monday, Jan 04, 1960

View All Authors

Andrew Rosenthal Quotes - Page 1

App & Tools

Related Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page

Stay Connected

App & Tools

Related Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page