I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
BILL KELLERLiberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
More Bill Keller Quotes
-
-
I don’t have dating tips.
BILL KELLER -
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
BILL KELLER -
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
BILL KELLER -
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
BILL KELLER -
I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.
BILL KELLER -
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
BILL KELLER -
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
BILL KELLER -
I don’t think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, you apply judgment to them.
BILL KELLER -
Liberation movements – prizing ends over means – are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
BILL KELLER -
Liberation movements – operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially – thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
BILL KELLER -
I’m a Capricorn, actually.
BILL KELLER -
The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your website and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.
BILL KELLER -
Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.
BILL KELLER -
I don’t think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
BILL KELLER -
One of the reasons that I’m a lurker on Twitter is that every time I tweet an idea, I feel like I’m delivering something to the competition that I ought to be giving to a reporter here.
BILL KELLER