Top 20 Quotes by Sydney Schanberg

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.

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

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

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

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.

What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the front of the book was all commentary and that he wanted hard news.

I don't judge myself by what someone says.

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

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

You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.