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Top 20 Daniel Okrent Quotes (2025 Update)

Daniel Okrent Quote: “Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park.”

1. “Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park.”

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Daniel Okrent Quote: “I’m afraid we’ll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars.”

2. “I’m afraid we’ll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars.”

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Daniel Okrent Quote: “San Francisco in 1890 might have seemed barely more saloon-sodden than that, reporting one for every 96 residents – but this was a measure only of the city’s 3,000 licensed establishments, while less restrictive estimates threw in an additional 2,000 unlicensed places.”

3. “San Francisco in 1890 might have seemed barely more saloon-sodden than that, reporting one for every 96 residents – but this was a measure only of the city’s 3,000 licensed establishments, while less restrictive estimates threw in an additional 2,000 unlicensed places.”

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Daniel Okrent Quote: “When I sell liquor, it’s bootlegging,” either Capone or one of his amanuenses said. “When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lake Shore Drive, it’s hospitality.” It was a recurrent theme, this shrugging disavowal of evil intent: “Ninety percent of the people of Cook County drink and gamble,” he said at another time, “and my offense has been to furnish them with those amusements.”

4. “When I sell liquor, it’s bootlegging,” either Capone or one of his amanuenses said. “When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lake Shore Drive, it’s hospitality.” It was a recurrent theme, this shrugging disavowal of evil intent: “Ninety percent of the people of Cook County drink and gamble,” he said at another time, “and my offense has been to furnish them with those amusements.”

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Daniel Okrent Quote: “Now I worry. If people ended up liking me, did I do the job wrong? So I decided they didn’t end up liking me – they ended up being able to deal with me.”

5. “Now I worry. If people ended up liking me, did I do the job wrong? So I decided they didn’t end up liking me – they ended up being able to deal with me.”

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Daniel Okrent Quote: “Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.”

6. “Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.”

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Daniel Okrent Quote: “If you really hate George Bush, you don’t want to read about his hobbies or that he’s nice to his friends or that he’s good company at dinner.”

7. “If you really hate George Bush, you don’t want to read about his hobbies or that he’s nice to his friends or that he’s good company at dinner.”

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Daniel Okrent Quote: “There wasn’t a single teetotaler “among the world’s really great men,” Stoll wrote; on the contrary, he said, the roster of wine-loving giants ran from Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Columbus, Dickens, Lincoln, and Bismarck, not to mention Verdi, Wagner, and Admiral Dewey.”

8. “There wasn’t a single teetotaler “among the world’s really great men,” Stoll wrote; on the contrary, he said, the roster of wine-loving giants ran from Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Columbus, Dickens, Lincoln, and Bismarck, not to mention Verdi, Wagner, and Admiral Dewey.”

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Daniel Okrent Quote: “If you can’t enjoy the game unless you are pretty sure your team is going to win, baseball is not the game for you. Remember, the best team in baseball in any year is going to be beaten about 60 times.”

9. “If you can’t enjoy the game unless you are pretty sure your team is going to win, baseball is not the game for you. Remember, the best team in baseball in any year is going to be beaten about 60 times.”

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Daniel Okrent Quote: “It’s a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.”

10. “It’s a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.”

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Daniel Okrent Quote: “He did not consider it “the function of law to jack up the moral tone of any community.” That, he said, was “the function of the home and the church.”

11. “He did not consider it “the function of law to jack up the moral tone of any community.” That, he said, was “the function of the home and the church.”

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Daniel Okrent Quote: “I’m saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.”

12. “I’m saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.”

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Daniel Okrent Quote: “Closing one’s ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one’s mind to the substance of their arguments.”

13. “Closing one’s ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one’s mind to the substance of their arguments.”

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Daniel Okrent Quote: “I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.”

14. “I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.”

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Daniel Okrent Quote: “The iron miners who belonged to the Italian Club in the town of Virginia, Minnesota, took pains to procure more suitable grapes, dispatching a grocer named Cesare Mondavi to the San Joaquin Valley late each summer to acquire their supply. Inspired to get into the grape business himself, Mondavi soon moved his family to California, where his precocious son Robert would make his own name in the winemaking world.”

15. “The iron miners who belonged to the Italian Club in the town of Virginia, Minnesota, took pains to procure more suitable grapes, dispatching a grocer named Cesare Mondavi to the San Joaquin Valley late each summer to acquire their supply. Inspired to get into the grape business himself, Mondavi soon moved his family to California, where his precocious son Robert would make his own name in the winemaking world.”

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Daniel Okrent Quote: “With that single previous exception, the original Constitution and its first seventeen amendments limited the activities of government, not of citizens. Now there were two exceptions: you couldn’t.”

16. “With that single previous exception, the original Constitution and its first seventeen amendments limited the activities of government, not of citizens. Now there were two exceptions: you couldn’t.”

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Daniel Okrent Quote: “But I think it’s undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper.”

17. “But I think it’s undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper.”

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Daniel Okrent Quote: “That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they’re relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me.”

18. “That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they’re relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me.”

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Daniel Okrent Quote: “I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.”

19. “I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.”

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Daniel Okrent Quote: “Gough had delivered more than ten thousand speeches to audiences estimated at more than nine million people. Among his listeners was a San Francisco surveyor who named one of the city’s main thoroughfares in his honor – out of either a sense of gratitude or, possibly, irony.”

20. “Gough had delivered more than ten thousand speeches to audiences estimated at more than nine million people. Among his listeners was a San Francisco surveyor who named one of the city’s main thoroughfares in his honor – out of either a sense of gratitude or, possibly, irony.”

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Daniel Okrent Quote: “But Taft also believed that the citizen who obeys only laws that he endorses “is willing to govern, but not be governed” – willing, in other words, to destroy the rule of law.”

21. “But Taft also believed that the citizen who obeys only laws that he endorses “is willing to govern, but not be governed” – willing, in other words, to destroy the rule of law.”

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