Daniel Okrent Quotations

That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.

Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park.

If you can't enjoy the game unless you are pretty sure your team is going to win, baseball is not the game for you. Remember, the best team in baseball in any year is going to be beaten about 60 times.

But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper.

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.

I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars.

If you really hate George Bush, you don't want to read about his hobbies or that he's nice to his friends or that he's good company at dinner.

Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.

The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true,