Arthur Sulzberger Quotes & Sayings

News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are. — Arthur Hays Sulzberger

I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior. — Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows. — Arthur Hays Sulzberger

I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world. — Arthur Hays Sulzberger

I wasn't the greatest reporter in the world, but I wasn't starting at zero. — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.

We journalists tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat. — Arthur Hays Sulzberger

'The New York Times' is inherent in what we are, but not worn as 'what we are'; it's important and crucial to all of us, but not something that was drilled in, in any specific ways. — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so. — Arthur Hays Sulzberger

You're not buying news when you buy The New York Times. You're buying judgment. — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests. — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

My father was not prone to worship, but he worshiped Arthur Sulzberger. — Andrew Rosenthal

The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians. — Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense. — Arthur Hays Sulzberger

More than print and ink, a newspaper is a collection of fierce individualists who somehow manage to perform the astounding daily miracle of merging their own personalities under the discipline of the deadline and retain the flavor of their own minds in print. — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

I don't think leadership demands 'yes' or 'no' answers; I think leadership is providing the forum for making the right decision, which doesn't demand unanimity. — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.

For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit. — Arthur Hays Sulzberger

If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you aren't trying hard enough. — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.

Along with responsible newspapers we must have responsible readers. — Arthur Hays Sulzberger

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love. — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives. — Arthur Hays Sulzberger

All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others. — Arthur Hays Sulzberger

What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples. — Arthur Hays Sulzberger

The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment. — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

If White men were not complaining, it would be an indication we weren't succeeding and making the inroads that we are. — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

David Carr was one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times, — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry. — Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he may still go wrong when he has the chance to be right, but give him no news or present him only with distorted and incomplete data, with ignorant, sloppy or biased reporting, with propaganda and deliberate falsehoods, and you destroy his whole reasoning processes, and make him something less than a man. — Arthur Hays Sulzberger

For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs. — Arthur Hays Sulzberger

In two days he saw Rupert Murdoch, his son James, and the management of their Wall Street Journal; Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and the top executives at the New York Times; and executives at Time, Fortune, and other Time Inc. magazines. "I would love to help quality journalism," he later said. "We can't depend on bloggers for our news. — Walter Isaacson

Maybe a deal was possible earlier. And maybe, in retrospect, looking back, you could say this was a moment you could have jumped on. If so, shame on us. I tend to think not. — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.

Freedom cannot be trifled with. You cannot surrender it for security unless in a state of war, and then you must guard carefully the methods of so doing. — Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar. — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger