Arthur Hays Sulzberger quotes

Arthur Hays Sulzberger was an American newspaper publisher and the longtime leader of The New York Times. Under his stewardship, the paper expanded its influence and modernized its journalistic practices. He played a significant role in shaping American media during the mid-20th century. Here are 13 of his 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.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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

Arthur Hays Sulzberger