Quotes from Andrew Rosenthal

Bill Clinton, who packs his own star power, has been a big draw as well as a big drag on his wife's campaign.

The editorial page is where you'll find our opinions, while the letters columns and the space for Op-Ed contributors are a forum for debate and discussion.

Congress passed the deeply flawed Patriot Act and authorized the invasion of Iraq. It even gave its retroactive approval to warrantless wiretapping.

There are so many reasons to mark the passing of the great Joe Cocker - as many songs as he wrote, recorded and performed in his remarkable concerts. For me, Cocker was also the only performer who successfully covered and even improved on The Beatles.

The 24/7 nature of online debate, on the web and across social media, has allowed for more vibrant discussion of the opinions we publish - and your own.

If something is presented as a fact, it has to be correct.

I like to say that a 'Times' editorial presents a strong opinion based on reality.

I read on my iPad. But honestly, I prefer print.

It's interesting how powerful, in fact, the printed page still is.

Opinion pages have an impact on public debate, and they sometimes reveal things the government would rather have kept quiet.

The Apple IIc, with its 128KB of RAM, 125KB floppy drive, word processor, and spreadsheet application, did everything I could imagine a computer doing at the time.

It's getting hard to keep up with all of the news from Washington - witch hunts, conspiracy theories and Republicans tearing each other apart over who is ideologically pure and who is apostate. It's a real set of carnival sideshows.

The columnists have a very personal relationship with their readers, and the readers deserve to hear directly from the columnists.

My father was not prone to worship, but he worshiped Arthur Sulzberger.

Music was transmitted over the airwaves in the '60s - for free, even - astonishingly enough without Bit Torrent.

If a columnist writes that something happened on a certain date, or that the government spent a certain amount of money on something, or that a specific number of people have died in the war in Iraq, to pick a few examples, it is his or her responsibility to make certain that information is correct.

Charles Blow's memoir 'Fire Shut Up in My Bones' was a breathtaking piece of writing.

I long ago lost track of the number of times the Obama administration has assured everyone that its vacuum-cleaner approach to electronic surveillance does not threaten the privacy or the rights of Americans.

Columnists must make sure that when they describe an event, they are being accurate in their description. When they quote someone, they are required to do so accurately. Errors that are made must be corrected openly and quickly.

The big thing in favor of doing an editorial on the front page is that it would be a powerful signal of how concerned we are about guns.

I have sometimes thought the power of computers had exceeded our ability to use them, but Mr. Jobs and his team kept giving us devices that made indispensable things easier in ways you never thought of.

When I heard the news that Steve Jobs had died, my mind flashed back to 1985, when I began my love affair with computers. I was stationed in Moscow for The Associated Press, and I ordered an Apple IIc - by Telex - from a department store in Helsinki, Finland. They express-shipped it to me, a month later, by train.

Even the king of phrasing, Frank Sinatra, did not do as well as Joe Cocker with his reinterpretation of 'Something' by George Harrison, which Sinatra called the greatest love song ever written.

Joe Cocker never sounded forced. Crazy, perhaps, but not forced.