Sydney Schanberg Quotes

I don’t see any move toward international pressure to stabilize the situation.

Lacey said if he wanted to read a daily or regular critiques of the Bush administration, he would read the New York Times, and that’s not what he wanted in the Village Voice.

Lacey didn’t like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends.

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot’s demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.

I don’t judge myself by what someone says.

I asked him, How could we have a press column if we can’t write about other work done in the press?

I just don’t believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.

This isn’t a little debate society. That’s high school stuff.

People in New York pay attention to national issues – a huge percentage of people.

Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.

Lacey had this huge chip on his shoulder. He walked into the room thinking that the people didn’t welcome him and didn’t like him. He gave the impression that he didn’t understand the Voice and New York, and he didn’t want to.

We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.

If you believe in journalism, you don’t insult good journalists.

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.