Arthur Hays Sulzberger Quotes

• 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.

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• We journalists tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

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• The United States can tell you all about what’s wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

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• 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.

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• 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

• 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.

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• I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows.

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• All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.

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Arthur Hays Sulzberger (14)

Birth:	12th September, 1891
Death:	11th December, 1968
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Publisher

About

Arthur Hays Sulzberger was the publisher of The New York Times from 1935 to 1961. In 1918 he began working at the Times, and became publisher when his father-in-law, Adolph Ochs, the previous Times publisher, died in 1935. In 1929, he founded Columbia's original Jewish Advisory Board and served on the board of what became Columbia-Barnard Hillel for many years. He served as a University trustee from 1944 to 1959 and is honored with a floor at the journalism school. In 1956 Sulzberger received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College.

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