Andrew Rosenthal

“I have sometimes thought the power of computers had exceeded our ability to use them, but Mr. Jobs and his team kept giving us devices that made indispensable things easier in ways you never thought of.”

“Congress passed the deeply flawed Patriot Act and authorized the invasion of Iraq. It even gave its retroactive approval to warrantless wiretapping.”

“My father, A. M. Rosenthal, edited the 'Times' for nearly 20 years and worked at the paper for many more.”

“When I was young, I colored in the line drawings in vintage editions of the Oz books that had been handed down through generations in my family. This was a bad thing to do.”

“In many campaigns, one candidate or another is asked to answer for comments he or she made in the past. The answer is usually gibberish - 'That was a long time ago,' or 'I was trying to say something else.'”

“Opinion pages have an impact on public debate, and they sometimes reveal things the government would rather have kept quiet.”

“An Op-Ed by a Republican criticizing the Democrats, or vice versa, is easy to come by and not that interesting. But a Democrat who takes issue with his or her party, or a Republican who does that, is more valuable.”

“Ultimately, presidential campaigns are - or at least should be - about the candidates, not their spouses or surrogates.”

“I read 'The Hobbit' but not a single one of the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy. I had to lie about this pretty much all through high school. I still say it apologetically.”

“It's interesting how powerful, in fact, the printed page still is.”

“The American system of civilian control of the military recognizes that soldiers' attention must be fixed on winning battles and staying alive, and that the fog of war can sometimes obscure the rule of law.”

“Music was transmitted over the airwaves in the '60s - for free, even - astonishingly enough without Bit Torrent.”

“The United States lost the nuclear-powered submarine Thresher 100 miles east of Cape Cod in 1963, and the submarine Scorpion sank in 1968 in more than 10,000 feet of water 400 miles southwest of the Azores.”

“I read on my iPad. But honestly, I prefer print.”

“New Yorkers were grateful when Donald J. Trump finished ahead of schedule and under budget in renovating the Wollman Memorial Rink, where the city had spent six years and $12 million trying to produce ice.”

“The columnists have a very personal relationship with their readers, and the readers deserve to hear directly from the columnists.”

“Joe Cocker never sounded forced. Crazy, perhaps, but not forced.”

“Bill Clinton, who packs his own star power, has been a big draw as well as a big drag on his wife's campaign.”

“The fact of the matter is, particularly when covering a campaign, which is a very high-speed story, it's incredibly unusual for the reporter to be in the same place as the dateline when the story is filed.”

“Even the king of phrasing, Frank Sinatra, did not do as well as Joe Cocker with his reinterpretation of 'Something' by George Harrison, which Sinatra called the greatest love song ever written.”