Bill Keller Quotes (11 Quotes)

What our reporting has done is set off an intense national debate about the proper balance between security and liberty.

For a couple more days she (Miller) remains under a contempt-of-court order, and is not yet clear of legal jeopardy,

I'm not sure journalists fully appreciate the threat confronting us. The Times in the eavesdropping case, the Post for its CIA prison stories, and everyone else who has tried to look behind the war on terror.

This news organization is a national treasure. I will do everything in my power to uphold its high standards, preserve its integrity and build on its achievements.

We do our best to make sure that doesn't happen, but occasionally it does. But notebooks are not by any means a vehicle for people to slip their personal opinions into the newspaper.

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.

steadfastness in defense of principle has won her admiration from around the world, wherever people value a free, aggressive press.

When we learn something anonymously, we push very hard to bolster our reporting with on-the-record information and documents. But often the first alert of something going wrong comes from a nervous insider who wants to expose something amiss but can't afford to risk his or her job.

I wish it had been a clear-cut whistle-blower case. I wish it had been a reporter who came with less public baggage.

Miller was still under a contempt-of-court order and was not yet clear of legal jeopardy, ... As we've told readers, once her obligations to the grand jury are fulfilled, we intend to write the most thorough story we can of her entanglement with the White House leak investigation.

Judy had been one of the reporters on the receiving end of the anti-Wilson whisper campaign.