The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.

- Bill Keller

I have nothing against conservative people putting out conservative commentary or doing conservative broadcasting, or liberal people doing liberal broadcasting, or conservative blogs or liberal blogs.

- Bill Keller

I think if you're a regular viewer of Fox News, you're among the most cynical people on planet Earth. I cannot think of a more cynical slogan than 'Fair and Balanced.'

- Bill Keller

In fact, I spent 25 years as a reporter, swearing I would never become an editor. Sitting at a desk, watching other people go out and find the story, and then fussing with other people's words - I just didn't get the appeal of that.

- Bill Keller

Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.

- Bill Keller

I don't think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.

- Bill Keller

I make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it.

- Bill Keller

I'm a Capricorn, actually.

- Bill Keller

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.

- Bill Keller

Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.

- Bill Keller

My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question.

- Bill Keller

For all of the woes besetting our business, I believe with all my heart that newspapers - whether they are distributed to your doorstep, your laptop, your iPhone or a chip implanted in your cerebral cortex - will be around for a long time.

- Bill Keller

You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.

- Bill Keller

Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter.

- Bill Keller

I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.

- Bill Keller

If a candidate for president said he believed that space aliens dwell among us, would that affect your willingness to vote for him? Personally, I might not disqualify him out of hand; one out of three Americans believe we have had Visitors and, hey, who knows? But I would certainly want to ask a few questions.

- Bill Keller

My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem?

- Bill Keller

Since September 11 2001, editors in America have faced some excruciating choices, as the attempt to wage a war against a new kind of enemy sometimes strained the boundaries of our laws and values.

- Bill Keller

There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.

- Bill Keller

There's a lot of stuff they don't teach you in the mythical editors' school. They don't teach you that you're going to have to spend a lot of your life in crisis management.

- Bill Keller